Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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