Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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