The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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