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 HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The river is everywhere.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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