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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse
Life, Yoga, Reality
"Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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

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

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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

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

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

Hermann Hesse
Disappointment, Passion, Reality
Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Hermann Hesse
Reality, People, World

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Hermann Hesse
Change, Reality, Long

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

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

Hermann Hesse
Clever, Learning, Reality

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Hermann Hesse
Sacrifice, Reality, Feelings

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Hermann Hesse
Lying, Mean, Reality
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

Hermann Hesse
Reality, Law, Yesterday
Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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