Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 4

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Country, War, Enemy

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• A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

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  Magic

  "Steps". Poem by Hermann Hesse, www.theguardian.com. 1941.

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• What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

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  Siddhartha, Would Be, Literature

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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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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• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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  Freedom, Ideas, Literature

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

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  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

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  Long, Moments, Eternity

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

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  Disappointment, Passion, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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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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• 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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• 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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• I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

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  Men, World, Today

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

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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

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  Journey, Men, Discovery

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

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  Beautiful, World

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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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• 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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