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a562568 In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, Hermann Hesse
d8326c9 U zivotu ne postoji nikakva duznost osim duznosti: biti srecan. Samo smo zato na svetu, a sa svim duznostima, svim moralom i svim zapovedima retko cinimo jedno drugoga srecnim, jer i sebe time ne cinimo srecnima. Ako covek moze biti dobar, moze to samo onda kada je srecan, kada u sebi ima sklada, dakle kada voli. To je bilo ucenje, jedino ucenje na svetu. To je rekao Isus, To je rekao Buda, To je rekao Hegel. Za svakoga je na ovome svetu je.. Hermann Hesse
8983637 ne aflam in cu totul alte raporturi fata de muzica clasica decat oamenii din epocile care au creat-o; veneratia spiritualizata si nu intotdeauna suficient eliberata de sub stapanirea unei melancolii resemnate, nutrita de noi fata de adevarata muzica, este cu totul altceva decat senina placere naiva iscata de muzica in vremurile in care a aparut [...] Hermann Hesse
9acb10b He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly, and he could love them for that; Hermann Hesse
8dd2b04 Ne prilici mi da dajem sud o zivotu drugih! Jedino sam za sebe moram da presudim, da odaberem, da odbijam. presuda sud život Hermann Hesse
58a3712 Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust. Hermann Hesse
bcb6c74 But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands. This is what I have thought and realized, when I have heard the teachings. This is why I am continuing my travels--not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers an.. siddhartha nirvana Hermann Hesse
8d540f2 He has presumably never observed a real wolf closely, otherwise he might have seen that animals too have no such things as unified souls; that the beautiful, taut frames of their bodies house a whole variety of aspirations and states of mind; that wolves suffer too, having dark depths within them. Oh no, human beings are always desperately mistaken and bound to suffer when they try to get 'back to nature'. Harry can never fully become a wol.. Hermann Hesse
8a5e90d When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine. Hermann Hesse
6732444 Intensity of life is only possible at the expense of self. But there is nothing members of the bourgeoisie value more highly than self, albeit only at a rudimentary stage of development. Thus, at the expense of intensity, they manage to preserve their selves and make them secure. Instead of possession by God, an easy conscience is the reward they reap; instead of desire, contentment; instead of liberty, cosiness; instead of life-threatening.. Hermann Hesse
4bfe8c8 How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal...! Hermann Hesse
945913a Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable." Hermann Hesse
15e99a9 Yalniz yasiyorsunuz, yalnizliginizdan sizi yoksun birakmak istemem. Ama zaman zaman insan temiz kalpli ve durust birinin yuzunu gormeden duramiyor. Hermann Hesse
cb061b5 But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough and ready as in our poor idiotic language; and Harry lies about himself twice over when he employs this niggardly wolf-theory. Hermann Hesse
3c48ca4 Knowledge can be expressed, but not wisdom. One can discover it, one can live it, one can be borne along by it, one can do miracles with it, but one cannot express it and teach it. Hermann Hesse
5b33c04 Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: "But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings and from teachers, and what they, who have taught you much, were still unable to teach you?" And he found: "It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it, could only .. Hermann Hesse
4055983 The weeks up there were almost the most beautiful in my life. I breathed the pure, clear air, drank the icy water from streams and watched the herds of goats grazing on the steep slopes, guarded by dark-haired, musing goatherds. At times I heard storms resound through the valley and saw mists and clouds at unusually close quarters. In the clefts of rocks I observed the small, delicate, bright coloured flowers and the many wonderful mosses, .. Hermann Hesse
ee04b7f Damit hing auch sein Bedurfnis nach Einsamkeit und nach Unabhangigkeit zusammen. Nie hat ein Mensch ein tieferes, leidenschaftlicheres Bedurfnis nach Unabhangigkeit gehabt als er. In seiner Jugendzeit, als er noch arm war und Muhe hatte, sein Brot zu verdienen, zog er es vor, zu hungern und in zerrissenen Kleidern zu gehen, nur um dafur ein Stuckchen Unabhangigkeit zu retten. Hermann Hesse
1787406 Zugleich dachte ich: so wie ich jetzt mich anziehe und ausgehe, den Professor besuche und mehr oder weniger erlogene Artigkeiten mit ihm austausche, alles ohne es eigentlich zu wollen, so tun und leben und handeln die meisten Menschen Tag fur Tag, Stunde um Stunde zwanghaft und ohne es eigentlich zu wollen, machen Besuche, fuhren Unterhaltungen, sitzen Amts- und Bureaustunden ab, alles zwanghaft, mechanisch, ungewollt, alles konnte ebensogu.. bürgertum Hermann Hesse
9ef28cc Man svarbu moketi myleti pasauli, neniekinti jo, nejausti neapykantos jam ir sau, zvelgti i ji, i save ir i visas butybes su meile, susizavejimu ir didzia pagarba. love siddhartha Hermann Hesse
c7ca7c6 Is tikruju jis niekada nesugebejo visiskai istirpti kitame zmoguje ir jam atsiduoti, uzmirsti save, padaryti kvailyste is meiles kitam; niekada jis to nemokejo, ir tada jam atrode, kad kaip tik sis bruozas skyre ji nuo vaikisku zmoniu. Hermann Hesse
e92626b Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another. Hermann Hesse
c75b685 He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe. Hermann Hesse
4f0e188 Disclosing his wound to this listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river. Hermann Hesse
7608311 You are clever, O Samana," said the Illustrious One, "you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness." Hermann Hesse
e6e2873 No, there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal, there was nothing standing between him and all the other thousand any more who lived in that what is eternal, who breathed what is divine. Hermann Hesse
75b1837 Je ne voulais qu'essayer de vivre ce que je portais en moi. Pourquoi etait-ce si difficile? Hermann Hesse
7a2a722 Y lo que, por el contrario, me sucede a mi en las raras horas de placer, lo que para mi es delicia, suceso, elevacion y extasis, eso no lo conoce, ni lo ama, ni lo busca el mundo mas que si acaso en las novelas; en la vida, lo considera una locura. Y en efecto, si el mundo tiene razon, si esta musica de los cafes, estas diversiones en masa, estos hombres americanos contentos con tan poco tienen razon, entonces soy yo el que no la tiene, ent.. life lobo-estepario vida-moderna existencialismo lobo hesse modern-life existentialism Hermann Hesse
ae5445c La seriedad (...) se produce por una hiperestimacion del tiempo. (...) En la eternidad, sin embargo, no hay tiempo: la eternidad es solo un instante, lo suficientemente largo para una broma. time eternidade existencialismo eternidad existentialism eternity tiempo Hermann Hesse
5d914d1 Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal. Hermann Hesse
af9f444 Perhaps this, that you are seeking all too much? That all your seeking is making you unable to find?" "How is this?" Govinda asked. "When a person seeks," Siddhartha said, "it can easily happen that his eye sees only the thing he is seeking; he is incapable of finding anything, of allowing anything to enter into him, because he is always thinking only of what he is looking for, because he has a goal, because he is possessed by his goal. See.. Hermann Hesse
ae314d9 Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good--death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Hermann Hesse
3c2ef5b This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction of Demian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begun with Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughts of Demian that I'd forgotten all about her.. loneliness Hermann Hesse
815765f And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may well be that it was not a very exceptional one. There must have been many men who have had a good deal of the dog or the fox, of the fish or the serpent in them without experiencing any extraordinary difficulties on that account. In such cases, the man and the fish lived on together and neither did the other any harm. The one even helped the oth.. human-nature Hermann Hesse
1417033 there is good and reason in us ... with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than ... fate, if only for a few hours. ... we can draw closer to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. Hermann Hesse
07dc982 When someone is searching," said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable o.. Hermann Hesse
e42bcd4 I had made my mind up to stay at the top of the class and [...] graduate at the head of it. [...] that was my kind of ideal. I just didn't know any better. Hermann Hesse
b791343 We recognized only one thing as our duty and destiny: every one of us had to become himself, had to be true to and live for the sake of the seed of nature at work in himself, so completely that the uncertain future would find us ready for anything and everything it might bring. Hermann Hesse
fdfb3fa Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?' 'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big. Hermann Hesse
aa212c5 In reality, however, 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 and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though it were a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us sha.. Hermann Hesse
eac0638 You must throw away everything you have and wash yourself clean of the past; otherwise you will never be able to face the world [happy and free]. Hermann Hesse
830b27a And who over the ruins of his life pursued its fleeting, fluttering significance, while he suffered its seeming meaninglessness and lived its seeming madness, and who hoped in secret at the last turn of the labyrinth of Chaos for revelation and God's presence... Hermann Hesse
3b29ed3 Every life has its radiance and beauty. Hermann Hesse
9556949 His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led ... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour. Hermann Hesse