In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEAge is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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 truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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