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.
HERMANN HESSEThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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