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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.

Hermann Hesse

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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Deep Destroy Violence
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
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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Evil Real Time
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Home Reach
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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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Literature Seek Value
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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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Equality Expression Truth World
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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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Book Stars Teaching
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory

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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