When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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