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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

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