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.
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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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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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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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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