Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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