Hermann Hesse Quotes about Hate

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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.

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.

Hermann Hesse

Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

Hate, Deserving It, People

Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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