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.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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