Your soul is the whole world.
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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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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 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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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