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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

  Hermann Hesse

  Tree, Longing For Home, Preacher

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

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• And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Evil, Goal

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.102, Om Books International

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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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• Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perception

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• Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

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• Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

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  Change, Reality, Long

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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

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  Peace, War, Our World

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

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  Order, Demand, Chaos

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• The art of love-giving and taking become one.

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  Love, Art, Giving

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• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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• Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

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  Reality, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

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  Motivational, Respect, Honor

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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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.

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  Independent, Thinking, Law

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

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• You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

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  Coward, Steppenwolf, Willing

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan

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• What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

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  Spiritual, Passion, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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  Reality, Literature, Behinds

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.34, Om Books International

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• We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

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  Religious, Educational, Eye

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• My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

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  Goal, Quality, Able

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• Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

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  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

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• Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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  Inspirational, Children, Writing

  Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin (2002). “Siddhartha: A New Translation”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

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  Life, Hate, Hippie

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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• Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

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  Greatness, Siddhartha, Speech

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1538, Google Publishing

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• Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Night, Men, Light

  "Gertrud". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1910.

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• Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

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  Arrows, Soul, Bows

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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