Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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!
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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