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.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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His 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.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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