The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. 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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The river is everywhere.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Solitude is independence.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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