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| fea3d11 | Because when a man tries to realize himself through the gifts with which nature has endowed him, he does the best and only meaningful thing he can do. That's why, in former days, I often said to you: don't try to imitate the thinker or the ascetic man, but be yourself, try to be yourself. | life purpose | Hermann Hesse | |
| c38e8f5 | Creamos dioses y luchamos con ellos; y ellos nos bendicen. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1dce887 | I'm going nowhere. I'm just travelling. I'm on a pilgrimage. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d26be9b | Van niets ter wereld heeft de mens een grotere afkeer dan van het bewandelen van de weg die hem tot zichzelf leidt. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8bd032c | Nie rozpaczam, Harry. Ale cierpie... o tak, w tym mam doswiadczenie. Dziwisz sie, ze nie jestem szczesliwa, skoro umiem tanczyc i tak pewnie poruszam sie po powierzchni zycia. A ja przyjacielu dziwie sie, ze zycie cie tak rozczarowalo, skoro jestes wtajemniczony wlasnie w najpiekniejsze i najglebsze sprawy ducha, sztuki i mysli! Dlatego poczulismy pociag do siebie, dlatego jestesmy rodzenstwem. Bede cie uczyla tanczyc, bawic sie i usmiechac.. | hermina wilk-stepowy | Hermann Hesse | |
| 4a650df | You consider yourself odd at times, you accuse yourself of taking a road different from most people. You have to unlearn that. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 58dd8e3 | Observa bien a un hombre y sabras de el mas que el mismo. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1994233 | I do want something more. I'm not content to be happy, that's not what I'm cut out to be, not what fate intended for me. I'm destined to be the very opposite. I had more than my fair share of unhappiness but my unhappiness was stupid, barren... Because if I wanted to die, and I did, I ought not to have been so afraid of death. The unhappiness I'm in need of and longing for is different. It's of a kind that will make me hunger for suffering .. | happyness inspirational motivation self-improvement suffering suicide | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1b054ce | The law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long. | rule service | Hermann Hesse | |
| 3d20592 | Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4dd0219 | And I don't want to live like a fleeting shadow, a consumptive, no. I want to live genuinely, with the true warmth and in full bloom. I want to be a gay worshipper in the temple of the muses rather than a mere hunted prey. Each day I ask in my prayers for the ability to preserve my own inner world rather than become stifled, so that the sweet poison, which I see thousands of people sipping, may not consume me as well. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3d1f62e | There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| acd1be9 | It's always difficult to be born. As you know, the bird must make an effort to break out of the egg. Think back and ask: Was the path really that difficult? Merely difficult? Wasn't it also beautiful? Could you have thought of a more beautiful or easier one? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f33f573 | I'm always running into the Sunday God of churchgoing Christians and cannot help noticing that he doesn't help out much on weekdays. | letters religion soul-of-the-age | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0a2eea8 | Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in the evenings. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| de35e5e | These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c43c34a | These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible. They assiduously learned to drive automobiles, to play difficult card games and lose themselves in crossword puzzles--for they faced death, fear, pain, and hunger almost without defenses, could no longer accept the consolations of the churches, and could obtain no usefu.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fda13e0 | El que quiere nacer, tiene que romper un mundo. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cfd99aa | Now and again I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and even every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war guilt, to ask himself how far his own faults and negligences and evil tendencies are guilty of the war and all the other wrongs of the world, and that therein lies the only possible means of avoiding the next war. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 54f2919 | To reflect for one moment, to examine himself for a while and ask what share he has in the world's confusion and wickedness--look you, nobody wants to do that. And so there's no stopping it, and the next war is being pushed on with enthusiasm by thousands upon thousands day by day. It has paralysed me since I knew it, and brought me to despair. I have no country and no ideals left. All that comes to nothing but decorations for the gentlemen.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c6d2731 | The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble and wonderful and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 165f8ff | His cumbersome mind clung to an obscure ideal, shared by many people of limited intellect and venerated with unthinking respect: to let a branch sprout from the main trunk, an extension of himself. | intellect parenting | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7786b4c | A]ll the countries had enough to pay for these enormous protective walls, and nobody thought about war. They only armed themselves 'just in case' - because rich people like to see steel walls around their money. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 547bcff | Ninguna idea le era mas odiosa y horrible que la de tener que ejercer un cargo, someterse a una distribucion del tiempo, obedecer a otros. Una oficina, una cancilleria, un negociado eran cosas para el tan execrables como la muerte, | Hermann Hesse | ||
| af04c83 | Lernen Sie ernst nehmen, was des Ernstnehmens wert ist, und lachen uber das andre! | lachen lernen | Hermann Hesse | |
| 25162ad | Onu bulmak gerekiyor, kendi Ben'inde bu asil pinari bulmak, onu bulum ozumsemek gerekiyordu! Baska turlusu aramakti yalniz, dolambacli yoldu, yolunu sasirmakti. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 576408f | But I no longer look to the stars, or seek in books; I have started to hear the lessons roared and murmured by the blood in my body. My story is not a happy one, not pleasing and harmonious like something invented - it reeks of meaninglessness and confusion, of insanity and dream, like the life of anyone who no longer wishes to lie to himself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b1090d4 | Hesse's ultimate message about the unity of the cosmos and the importance of loving the world, not despising it, was censored out by his convictions in the other direction. Hermann Hesse's books were banned after Hitler took power. | Peter Padfield | ||
| b7e8ac4 | You are much too exacting and hungry for this simple, easygoing and easily contented world of today. You have a dimension too many. Whoever wants to live and enjoy his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours-- | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b7712f3 | Let's practice a little philosophy now; that is, let's shut up, lie on our stomachs, and think. | philosophy | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7d9d1e7 | Fire worship wasn't the dumbest thing ever invented. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 077072e | He wanted to strive for nothing, except for what the voice commanded him to strive for, dwell on nothing, except where the voice would advise him to do so. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b080dad | There was a war on, a violent, genuine and highly sympathetic war where there was no concern for Kaiser or republic, for frontiers, flags or colors and other equally decorative and theatrical matters, all nonsense at bottom; but a war in which every one who lacked air to breathe and no longer found life exactly pleasing gave emphatic expression to his displeasure and strove to prepare the way for a general destruction of this iron-cast civi.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b830b90 | the heart of long-past days continued to live on, in which, still after centuries, the fears and delights of long-since-vanished generations, frozen to stone, offered resistance to the passage of time. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 11e90fa | You must not give way to desires which you don't believe in. I know what you desire. You should, however, either be capable of renouncing these desires or feel wholly justified in having them. Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come. But at present you alternate between desire and renunciation and are afraid all the time. All that must be overcome.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| de860de | All I have to worry about is that you should learn to know a little more of the little arts and lighter sides of life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 164542c | Two-thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace of mind and better feelings by them, and the end and aim of it all is to have the war over again, the next war that draws nearer and nearer, and it will be a good deal more horrible than the last. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 67b757a | 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 once he has begun to think. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f5270fc | The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ee0d5aa | Indestructible and abiding as the stars, these experiences, though forgotten, could never be erased. Their series was the story of my life, their starry light the undying value of my being. My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; yet it had laid up riches, riches to be proud of. It had been for all its wretchedness a princely life. Let the little way to death be as it .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d01e498 | And now the wolf commanded and the man obeyed. At the word of command the man sank on his knees, let his tongue loll out and tore his clothes off with his filed teeth. He went on two feet or all-fours just as the wolf ordered him, played the human being, lay for dead, let the wolf ride on his back and carried the whip after him. With the aptness of a dog he submitted gladly to every humiliation and perversion of his nature. A lovely girl ca.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e70499a |
I eto tozhe khorosho, ochen' khorosho, - skazal on, - poslushaite-ka: < |
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| e7b771d | we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 19bc298 | Potomu chto ia takaia zhe, kak ty. Potomu chto ia tak zhe odinoka, kak ty, i tochno tak zhe, kak ty, nesposobna liubit' i prinimat' vser'ez zhizn', liudei i sebia samoe. Ved' vsegda nakhodiatsia takie liudi, kotorye trebuiut ot zhizni samogo vysshego i ne mogut primirit'sia s ee glupost'iu i grubost'iu. | Hermann Hesse |