The truth is lived, not taught.
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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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 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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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