I 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.
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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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