Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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