Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 8

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• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

  Hermann Hesse

  Errors, Self, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.9, Om Books International

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• I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Destiny, Opposites

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• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

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• When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, Suffering, Culture

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• Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Feelings, Admiration

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

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• Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

  Hermann Hesse

  Goal, Healthy, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Pain, Heart

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• Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Doubt, Should, Asks

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Passion, Heart, Waiting

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• Love is stronger than violence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Love Is, Stronger

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• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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  Time, Home, House

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• You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Want, Should

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• When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2000). “Demian”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Words can not express the joy of new life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Baby, Joy, New Life

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• He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.31, Youcanprint

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• Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

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  Breakup, Children, Passion

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 217, 1910.

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• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

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  Art, Grace, Understanding

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

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  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

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  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1484, Google Publishing

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• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

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  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

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• What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

  Hermann Hesse

  Too Much, Should, Should I

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

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  Lying, Psychology, Interpretation

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Rivers, Water

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