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Own 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.
- 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…
- What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
- 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…
- The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of…
- All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul…
- This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being…
- One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
- Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within…
- I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
- Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary…
- She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to…
- I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
- 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…
- The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
- Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
- Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments…
- Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts…
- Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov