If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The river is everywhere.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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