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Them Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around…
- 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…
- Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that…
- Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal…
- For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And…
- 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…
- There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality…
- Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
- 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…
- Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not…
- Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's…
- I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and…
- 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…
- And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together…
- Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
- Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like…
- Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful…
- Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,…
- They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice…
- You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
- No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No…
- Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach…
- He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming…
- I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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