The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEWhat you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The river is everywhere.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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