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!
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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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