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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
Born: Jul 2, 1877
Died: Aug 9, 1962
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse
Inspirational Good Value Whatever Believe Our Way Bad Give Something Come Always Still May Transform Meaning Fortune Believed
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. Hermann Hesse
You Yourself Hate Ourselves Disturb Something Part Him Person Us
Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse
Alone Solitude Independence
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 and never allow the world within them to assert itself. Hermann Hesse
Life Reality People World Live Unreal Except Take Allow Outside Never Contained Within Itself So Many People Them Us Many Assert Why Images
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse
Happiness Object Talent How
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. Hermann Hesse
Relationship Honor Become Other Our Recognize See Purpose He Him Learn Each
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 - that is happiness. Hermann Hesse
Happiness Smile Woman Sacrifice Able Throw Self Sake Years Moment Away
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. Hermann Hesse
World Bird Will Way Destroy Out Must Born Egg Fights Whoever
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse
Liberty Fire Pleasant Pleasure Temperature Consuming Bourgeois Comfort Deathly Convenience Inner
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. Hermann Hesse
Intelligence World Mind Opposites Other Our Consists Drawn Insights Dividing New Beyond Passing Line Begin Which Capable Pairs
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse
Thoughts Words Become Immediately Distorted Foolish Well Always Very Different After Little Express Expressed
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. Hermann Hesse
Man World Every Once Way Significant More Only Point Remarkable Never He Also Himself Always Very Than Just Represents Which Again Special Unique Every Man Phenomena Intersect
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse
Responsibility Leader Think Those Clamor Take Cannot Themselves Who Need
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse
Wisdom Knowledge Communicate Live Find Through Wonders Cannot Fortified Teach
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse
Character Courage People Rest Seem Always Sinister
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse
History Humanity Writing Words Books Would Would-Be Could Concept Without
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
Life Love Death Great Transformation Sweet Call Accept Answer Affirmative Eternal Forms
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse
Long Joke Enough Mere Just Eternity Moment
The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
Truth Truth Is Taught Lived
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 of life. Hermann Hesse
Life Wisdom Art Thoughts Soul Feeling Nothing Preparation Every Unity Thinking Secret Capacity Breathing Moment
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Hermann Hesse
Time Good Suffering Good And Evil World Illusion Evil Dividing Between Also Bliss Real Line Eternity Then
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Hermann Hesse
You Yourself People Fear Harmony Only Never Because Up Owned Afraid Themselves
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. Hermann Hesse
Morning Joy Sky Pure Long Clothes Too Saw Neighboring High Window Finest Seemed Through Had Put Over Cheerfully Occasion Houses Blue Full Plans Special Bright
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Hermann Hesse
Better Everything Ourselves Wills Someone Knows Within Does Than Us Who
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse
Made Creation Savior Spirit Individual Crucified Flesh Whole Each Each Individual Each One Suffers
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. Hermann Hesse
Knowledge Learning Believe Everything Everywhere We Cannot My Friend Something Only Call Friend Essence Cannot
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