The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
HERMANN HESSEWhat 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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 bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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I 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.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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