Hermann Hesse Quotes

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• I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

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  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian: A Dual-Language Book”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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  Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

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  Positive, Being Yourself, Time

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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  Love, Life, Strength

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  The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

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  Inspirational, Men, Way

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.8, Modern Library

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• To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

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  Patience, Revenge, People

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• When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

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  Love, Relationship, Communication

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  Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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  Passion, Home, Creative

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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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.

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  Life, Yoga, Reality

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

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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.

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  War, Eye, Disrespect

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  Every experience has its element of magic.

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  Magic, Elements

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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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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  Inspirational, Dream, Differences

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

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• Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

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  Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

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• You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

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  Trying, Impossible, Achieve

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

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  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

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  Good Night, Morning, Home

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• Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

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  Hurt, Love You, Suffering

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

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  Inspirational, Courage, Character

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

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

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

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• God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

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  Peace, Order, Despair

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

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  Truth, Faces, Millions

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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

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  Love Is, Men, Capable

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• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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