A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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