To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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