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Hermann Hesse quotes

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“Being smart is good, being patient is better.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Writing is good, thinking is better.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“The opposite of every truth is just as true!” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“I always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Wonderfully, soon afterwards, insight came towards me in the form of the great Buddha's teachings, I felt the knowledge of the oneness of the world circling in me like my own blood.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“These people are rare who know how to listen.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Your soul is the whole world” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“It has not come to you by means of teachings! And—thus is my thought, oh exalted one,—nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“When a person has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he could do.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Everyone gives what he has. The warrior gives strength, the merchant gives merchandise, the teacher teachings, the farmer rice, the fisher fish.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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