All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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