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Hermann Hesse Quotes
Brief author info: Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German novelist.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Life Quote
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Funny Quote
Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
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