Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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 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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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