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" 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. "

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" 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

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" The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. "

" Solitude is independence. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. "

" Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. "

Hermann Hesse

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Within

" What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. "

" 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. "

" All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. "

" Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. "

" If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. "

" In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. "

" 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. "

" Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. "

Hermann Hesse

Strong

Think

" The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. "

" It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. "

" To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. "

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "

" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

" As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. "

" 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

Him

Hate

" Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. "

" Only the ideas that we really live have any value. "

" 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. "

" The truth is lived, not taught. "

" One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. "

" Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. "