The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Solitude is independence.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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 truth is lived, not taught.
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