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.
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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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