Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSELife 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
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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