Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The river is everywhere.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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