You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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