The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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