The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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