German - Novelist | July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Hermann Hesse
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
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