Hermann Hesse quotes - page 4

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. (Hermann Hesse)
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. View quote
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. View quote
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good. View quote
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. View quote
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. View quote
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During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. View quote
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. View quote
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I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him. View quote
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A mere nothing suffices - and the lightning strikes. View quote
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. (Hermann Hesse)
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. View quote
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. View quote
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. View quote
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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there. View quote
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. View quote
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. View quote
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Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years. View quote
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. View quote
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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. View quote
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It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. (Hermann Hesse)
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. View quote
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Now what we call "bourgeois,” when regarded as an element always to be found in human life, is nothing else than the search for a balance. It is the striving after a mean between the countless extremes and opposite that arise in human conduct. View quote
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The tree does not die. It waits. View quote
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Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. View quote
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