To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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