People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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