There is no reality except the one contained within us.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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