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.
HERMANN HESSEI began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Passion 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.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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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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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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