Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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