Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Order, Secret

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.33, 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Motivational, Respect, Honor

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

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, World

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Siddhartha

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

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Order, Demand, Chaos

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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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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Goal, Quality, Able

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Art, Giving

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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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• Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational

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

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• For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Roots, Giving, Tree

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Hate, Hippie

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

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

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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?

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Trying, Difficult

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Literature, Behinds

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

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• I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Meaning Of Life, Responsible

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Religious, Educational, Eye

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Children, Writing

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

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Passion, Soul

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

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• I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teaching, Blood

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

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfect, Grace, World

  "Siddhartha".

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

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

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Clever, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.29, Om Books International

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