To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSESeriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The river is everywhere.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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