Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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 are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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