Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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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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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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