The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSE
The 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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The river is everywhere.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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