Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Solitude is independence.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Seriousness 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.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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