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.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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 life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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