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Us Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague…
- There is no reality except the one contained within us.
- 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…
- 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…
- A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a…
- When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
- For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being…
- Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
- All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
- 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…
- Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- 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…
- Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
- You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to…
- 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…
- Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
- ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states…
- Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when…
- You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us,…
- Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates…
- I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity…
- You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love…
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong