To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSESeeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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