Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEAnd 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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The river is everywhere.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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