Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
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Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.
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To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
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I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
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I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
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What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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In the beginning was the myth.
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
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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.
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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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Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.