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Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
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Philosopher
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Resistance Fighter
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Opinions mean nothing they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
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Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
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Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.
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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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