Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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 river is everywhere.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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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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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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