The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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