The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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