You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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