Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject 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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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