We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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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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