I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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