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Hermann Hesse Quote: “Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Solitude is independence.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “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.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “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.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “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.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking – a detour, an error.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
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