black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Hermann Hesse

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.
HERMANN HESSE

Life People Reality World Yoga
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSE

Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSE

Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSE

Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSE

Laughter Learning Serious
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSE

Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
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 HESSE

Home Reach
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSE

Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
HERMANN HESSE

Flower Heart Try
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE

Deep Face Truth
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
HERMANN HESSE

Art Life Wisdom
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSE

Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSE

Existence Reality Yourself
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSE

Life Reality
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSE

Death Live Willing
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 HESSE

Afraid People Philosophy

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hermann Hesse Quotes