The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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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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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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