If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSEA 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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