The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
HERMANN HESSEThe best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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