Hermann Hesse Quotes

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
• I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I…
• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,…
• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was…
• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
• To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
• Words can not express the joy of new life.
• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague…
• Happiness is love, nothing else.
• Love is stronger than violence.
• There is no reality except the one contained within us.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
• And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness…
• A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds…
• Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
• All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each…

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