Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 4

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• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

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  Spring, Intellectual, World

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• Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

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  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

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• 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.

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  People, Mind, Age

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• The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

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  Reality, People, World

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• We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

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  Home, Dirt, Guides

  Hermann Hesse (1963). “Steppenwolf: novel”, Harcourt School

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• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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  Reality, Literature, Behinds

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.34, Om Books International

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• Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

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  Independent, Thinking, Law

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

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

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  Tree, Longing For Home, Preacher

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

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  Night, Soul, One Day

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• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

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  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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  Love, Encouragement, Hurt

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• A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

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  Beautiful, Wall, Book

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• We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

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  Yoga, Buddhism, Circles

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.17, Om Books International

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• You are only afriad 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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  Harmony, Ifs, Demian

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

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  Two, People, Together

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

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  Life, Trying, Difficult

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

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  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

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  Flower, Fall, Heart

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

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  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

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  Country, War, Enemy

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• 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.

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  Time, Real, Evil

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

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  Depression, Suicide, Children

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

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• Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

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  Work, Destiny, Men

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• I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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  Stars, Book, Teaching

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

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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