Hermann Hesse quotes - page 3

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. (Hermann Hesse)
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. View quote
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Everything becomes a little bit different as soon as it is spoken out loud. View quote
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. View quote
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If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. View quote
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Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it too long. View quote
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No, I'm not religious I'm sorry to say. There is no time now to be religious." View quote
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These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. There is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood and the father's; the capacity for happiness and the capacity for suffering; and in just such a state of enmity and entanglement towards and within each other as were the wolf and man in Harry. View quote
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How alien our country has become from her noblest Province and how unfaithful to that Province's spirit; how far body and soul, ideal and reality have moved apart in our country; how little they know about each other, or want to know. View quote
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As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair. View quote
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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. (Hermann Hesse)
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. View quote
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. View quote
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Solitude is independence. View quote
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. View quote
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. View quote
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. View quote
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. (Hermann Hesse)
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. View quote
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. View quote
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. View quote
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. View quote
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