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Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 2

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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Inspirational, Dream, Differences

"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 183, 1919.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Flower, Heart, Trying

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Knowledge, Practice, Theory

A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

Good Night, Morning, Home

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Madness, Steppenwolf, Higher

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

Solitude is independence.

Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Art, Grace, World

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Life, Fun, Weapons

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

People, Harmony, Ifs

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

All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

Book, Angel, Ice

Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.182, Bantam

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Reality, Long

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.

Finals, Done, Steps

Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

Running, Stars, Fall

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Love, Life, Anniversary

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

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

Loneliness, Self, Soul

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Believe, Hands, Doubt

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Truth, Faces, Millions

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Humor, Higher, Oneself

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Doe, Violence, Firsts

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Communication, Different, Littles

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