Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSEEvery 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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