We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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 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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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