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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
