And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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