I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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