Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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