Hermann Hesse Quotes

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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Life People Reality World Yoga
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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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Deep Destroy Violence
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
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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Afraid People Philosophy
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

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