Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
HERMANN HESSEThere 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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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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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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The river is everywhere.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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