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| 94fd077 | I can see that your thoughts are deeper than you yourself are able to express. But since this is so, you know, don't you, that you've never lived what you are thinking and that isn't good. Only the ideas that 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 second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this onc.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c872872 | Es ist so gut, das zu wissen: dass in uns drinnen einer ist, der alles weiss, alles will, alles besser macht als wir selber. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fab60cc | At this point a sharp realization burned within me: each man has his "function" but none which he can choose himself, define, or perform as he pleases. It was wrong to desire new gods, completely wrong to want to provide the world with something. An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e95f39a | It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. Don't laugh if I sound foolish. But to love a woman, you see, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed by her, that is not what you call 'being in love,' which you mock a little. For me it is the road to life, the way toward the meaning of life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7cd9ec9 | Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mustn't be a personal, freely chosen ideal, but one held in common and taken over from other people. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e3568eb | Abschied war es, Herbst war es, Schicksal war es, wonach die Sommerrose so reif und voll geduftet hatte. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 357b05f | He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fdcccd2 | Young woman, fresh face, I don't want to know your name. I don't want to cherish and fatten my love for you. You aren't the end of my love, but its awakening, its beginning. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 58f8ee9 | Denn dies hasste, verabscheute und verfluchte ich von allem doch am innigsten: diese Zufriedenheit, diese Gesundheit, Behaglichkeit, diesen gepflegten Optimismus des Burgers, diese fette gedeihliche Zucht des Mittelmassigen, Normalen, Durchschnittlichen. | glück | Hermann Hesse | |
| 44fc828 | Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. | sorrow wisdom youth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 3a3267a | For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had n.. | inspirational profound-realizations | Hermann Hesse | |
| e6fac5e | No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e38f806 | Quite a number of people are able to feel the beauty of the world profoundly and vastly, and to carry high, noble images in their souls, but they are unable to exteriorize these images, to create them for the enjoyment of others, to communicate them. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2143d75 | Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding and sense of redemption this fateful time had yielded had surged, in the course of this past day, to such a wave of thought and clarity that he had felt he would remain forever on the crest even while he was beginning to drop down. Now he was in the trough again, still fighting, still secretly hoping, but gravely injured. For one brief, glowing day he had succeed.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7cea28a | He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to their lives, the amount of passion in their joys and fears, the fearful but sweet happiness of being constantly in love. These people were all of the time in love with themselves, with women, with their children, with honours or money, with plans or hopes | hermann hesse | ||
| 4ab20e7 | I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love; then there were the women who were drawn to him, suffering insults and beatings, finally rejected and yet still clinging to him, degraded by jealousy and despised love, but still remaining faithful. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 36fcb95 | Ja, man muss seinen Traum finden, dann wird der Weg leicht. Aber es gibt keinen immerwahrenden Traum, jeden lost ein neuer ab, und keinen darf man festhalten wollen. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2f0c86a | At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards. | metamorphosis self-knowledge | Hermann Hesse | |
| 98be256 | Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction | history objectivity | Hermann Hesse | |
| 84098b3 | Siddhartha saw it hurrying, the river, which consisted of him and his loved ones and of all people, he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals, the waterfall, the lake, the rapids, the sea, and all goals were reached, and every goal was followed by a new one, and the water turned into vapour and rose to the sky, turned into rain and poured down from the sky, turned into a source, a st.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b5810db | No person has ever been completely himself, but each one strives to become so, some gropingly, others more lucidly, according to his abilities. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c063d1c | With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: "It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say. But isn't every life, isn't every work beautiful?" | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4eec4b7 | nk l tkhf l Hynm l tkwn mnsjm m` nfsk w lns khy'fwn lnh lm ysbq lhm n knw msyTryn `l~ nfshm. mjtm` bkmlh mw'lf mn 'ns khy'fyn mn lmjhwl ldhy fyhm. w klhm yHswn n l' ss lty y`yshwn wfqh lm t`d SlH@, w nhm y`yshwn wfq qwnyn blyh- l dynhm wl khlqhm fy tlw'm m` Hjt lHDr | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8abf2ab | He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. | meditation self siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| 93a9b86 | Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself. | resolve soul | Hermann Hesse | |
| b5c18fe | In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter how necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace less beautiful, | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7a3fced | 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 and to reach my goal by myself or to die. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 67089e3 | If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today. | impermanence | Hermann Hesse | |
| 8535d8e | Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy. | love parenting | Hermann Hesse | |
| e4056e0 | The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life as something far more than horrible, far more than barbarous. Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduce.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f686c6d | There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| be8f4a4 | That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a5f5a83 | No one liked him, no one was on intimate terms with him... he was a good person but took no particular trouble to please anyone. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1ab6ef9 | Aber heute weiss ich nicht mehr, was ich eigentlich will und wunsche. Fruher war alles einfach, so einfach wie die Buchstaben in einem Lesebuch. Jetzt ist nichts mehr einfach, nicht einmal mehr die Buchstaben. Alles hat viele Bedeutungen und Gesichter bekommen. Ich weiss nicht, was aus mir werden soll, ich kann jetzt nicht an solche Sachen denken. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8f0c31f | He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not believe What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, Will give little credence to my song. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| be8c615 | Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild. | students | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 38c5d31 | In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cfbe1cb | But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 587a38c | The first thing I can remember clearly is writing the way into the secret room. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 97c92e6 | He is the earth and sunlight, the leaves of trees, the eagle's flight. He is alive. And all who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. | life rebirth | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1cb29e1 | The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b0e3bb0 | This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. | love nature | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3fec908 | The word he used was not "wallowing," there being no animals on Anarres to make wallows; it was a compound, meaning literally "coating continually and thickly with excrement." The flexibility and precision of Pravic lent itself to the creation of vivid metaphors quite unforeseen by its inventors." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 34f3c9c | Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains... and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. "You call that organization?" he had inquired. "You even call it dis.. | Ursula K. Le Guin |