The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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