Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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