The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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