Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Solitude is independence.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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