Demian Quotes

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fighting, Names, Eggs

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 166, 1919.

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• We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  Demian Bichir

  Angel, Winning, Play

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Book, Teaching

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

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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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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• I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Self, Difficult, Accord

  "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Forever, Lasts

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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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• 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!

  Hermann Hesse

  Harmony, Ifs

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

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• I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

  Demian Bichir

  Believe, I Believe, Don't Believe

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• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Courage, Character

  "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse , p. 123, 1919.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

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

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• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Truth, Father

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

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• 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. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Unique, Long

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, World, Today

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

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• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

  Hermann Hesse

  Character, People, Fearless

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 123, 1919.

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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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• Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Way, Synchronicity

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

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• Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Long, Important

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

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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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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Independent, Thinking, Law

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

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• Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Strength, Demand

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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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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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