Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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