Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEA house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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