The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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