What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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