Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEAny attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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