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Self Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that…
- To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile -…
- 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…
- Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
- In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans…
- I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
- One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
- Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered…
- We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our…
- My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
- Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be…
- What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short…
- He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,…
- What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps…
- I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of…
- I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious.…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster