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Thinking Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
- Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing…
- 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…
- Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment…
- Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
- But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
- Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have…
- 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…
- 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…
- You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
- You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the…
- When someone is seeking,†said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to…
- 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…
- It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love…
- Most men will not swim before they are able to.†Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth,…
- I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
- The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse…
- People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer…
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