Hermann Hesse Quotes

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

Hermann Hesse

Love, Life, Strength

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

Hermann Hesse

Love, Relationship, Communication

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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

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Taken, Laughing, Steppenwolf

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

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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

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Love Is, May, Evening

Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.65, Bantam

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To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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Teaching, Enlightenment, Hours

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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

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Impossible, Achieve, Again And Again

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

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Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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Sympathy, Death, Sweet

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Hermann Hesse

Doe, Violence, Firsts

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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.

Hermann Hesse

Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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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.

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Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

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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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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

Hermann Hesse

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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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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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.

Hermann Hesse

Spring, Intellectual, World

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Born: July 2, 1877
Died: August 9, 1962
Occupation: Poet
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