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Books Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- "For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It…
- The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching…
- I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in…
- 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,…
- I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars…
- There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for…
- Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.
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