The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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