Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 2

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• Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Doe, Admire

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• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Angel, Ice

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.182, Bantam

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• A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Tree, Looks

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Philosophy, Reality, Unreal

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Investing, Enough

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Finals, Done, Steps

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Dream, Differences

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 183, 1919.

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• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Eye, Disrespect

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Harmony, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  Hermann Hesse

  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Hands, Doubt

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Men, Capable

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• You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Way, Easy

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Ideas, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  Hermann Hesse

  Truth, Faces, Millions

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• Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

  Hermann Hesse

  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

  Hermann Hesse

  Knowledge, Practice, Theory

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• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Fun, Weapons

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• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, World

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• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

  Hermann Hesse

  Humor, Higher, Oneself

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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