Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 9

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• What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

  Hermann Hesse

  Too Much, Should, Should I

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Want, Should

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• 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

  Men, Way Forward, Matter

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• Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

  Hermann Hesse

  Each Day, World, Remains

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

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• One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

  Hermann Hesse

  Errors, Self, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.9, Om Books International

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• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Self, Excellence, Doe

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• In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

  Hermann Hesse

  Truth, Opposites, One Sided

  "Siddhartha: An Indian Tale".

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• Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

  Hermann Hesse

  Form, Like Me, Mortals

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.8, Om Books International

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• A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

  Hermann Hesse

  Regret, Thousand, Ready

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• We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Bless

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

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• 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

  Past, Perfect, Meditation

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

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• It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Heart, Eye

  "Siddhartha".

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• Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1484, Google Publishing

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• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

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  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

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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.

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  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

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  Home, Joy, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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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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  People, Stupidity, Demand

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

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• A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

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  Lightning, Strikes, Steppenwolf

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Men, Understanding, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1959). “Goldmund”

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• The opposite of every truth is just as true.

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  Opposites, Truth Is

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Eye

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• Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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  Inspirational, Stupid, Writing

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.109, Om Books International

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• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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  Faith, Mean, Order

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Happiness is love, nothing else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

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