And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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 only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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