The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSEWisdom 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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