To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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