We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within 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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The river is everywhere.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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