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Only Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
- Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
- 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…
- 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…
- "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 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…
- You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies…
- The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past,…
- I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but…
- Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
- Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
- In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.
- Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with…
- Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
- I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of…
- Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it…
- Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes…
- When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists
- Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every…
- Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself
- Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
- You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that…
- He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that…
- When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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