Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
HERMANN HESSEPassion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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