I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Hermann Hesse
Knowledge, Thirsted, Questions, Intellectual Curiosity, Lifelong Learning, Inquisitive Nature
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“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.” Hermann Hesse
Wise, Game, Death, Interpersonal Challenge, Life Wisdom, Emotional Intensity
Hermann Hesse Wise, Game, Death, Interpersonal Challenge, Life Wisdom, Emotional Intensity“Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.” Hermann Hesse
Youth, Disillusionment, Light, Loss, Reason, Existential Journey
Hermann Hesse Youth, Disillusionment, Light, Loss, Reason, Existential Journey“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.” Hermann Hesse
Writing, Thinking, Patience, Intellectual Hierarchy, Personal Growth, Wisdom Prioritization
Hermann Hesse Writing, Thinking, Patience, Intellectual Hierarchy, Personal Growth, Wisdom Prioritization“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.” Hermann Hesse
Seeking, Finding, Goal, Spiritual Insight, Open-mindedness, Non-attachment
Hermann Hesse Seeking, Finding, Goal, Spiritual Insight, Open-mindedness, Non-attachment“Our god’s name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.” Hermann Hesse
Duality, Deity, Belief, Spirituality, Complexity, Existence
Hermann Hesse Duality, Deity, Belief, Spirituality, Complexity, Existence“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.” Hermann Hesse
Identity, Layers, Enlightenment, Illusion, Human Nature, Eastern Philosophy
Hermann Hesse Identity, Layers, Enlightenment, Illusion, Human Nature, Eastern Philosophy“So you can’t dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you’ve taken any trouble to live when you won’t even dance?” Hermann Hesse
Dance, Expression, Life, Vitality, Joy, Existence
Hermann Hesse Dance, Expression, Life, Vitality, Joy, Existence“Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.” Hermann Hesse
Meaning, Reality, Things, Philosophical Insight, Existential Presence, Universal Truth
Hermann Hesse Meaning, Reality, Things, Philosophical Insight, Existential Presence, Universal Truth“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got.” Hermann Hesse
Responsibility, Meaning, Life, Choices, Individual Agency, Personal Growth
Hermann Hesse Responsibility, Meaning, Life, Choices, Individual Agency, Personal Growth“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.” Hermann Hesse
Healing, Self Acceptance, Personal Integrity, Growth, Transformation, Rebirth
Hermann Hesse Healing, Self Acceptance, Personal Integrity, Growth, Transformation, Rebirth“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.” Hermann Hesse
Mortality, Uncertainty, Impermanence, Reflection, Existential Truth, Universal Fate
Hermann Hesse Mortality, Uncertainty, Impermanence, Reflection, Existential Truth, Universal Fate“What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.” Hermann Hesse
Searching, Finding, Discovery, Freedom, Letting Go, Self Exploration
Hermann Hesse Searching, Finding, Discovery, Freedom, Letting Go, Self Exploration“The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time.” Hermann Hesse
Day, Night, Duality, Experience, Realms, Perception
Hermann Hesse Day, Night, Duality, Experience, Realms, Perception“First you must climb the Mountain of Knowledge, then you must perform some deeds, and finally you must find love and become happy.” Hermann Hesse
Knowledge, Action, Love, Happiness, Life Journey, Personal Growth
Hermann Hesse Knowledge, Action, Love, Happiness, Life Journey, Personal Growth“Everyone had only one true vocation: to find himself. Let him wind up as a poet or a madman, as a prophet or a criminal – that wasn’t his business; in the long run, it was irrelevant. His business was to discover his own destiny, not just any destiny, and to live it totally and undividedly. Anything else was just a half-measure, an attempt to run away, an escape back to the ideal of the masses, an adaptation, fear of one’s own nature.” Hermann Hesse
Vocation, Find, Destiny, Personal Authenticity, Existential Purpose, Individual Journey
Hermann Hesse Vocation, Find, Destiny, Personal Authenticity, Existential Purpose, Individual Journey“No person has ever been completely himself, but each one strives to become so, some gropingly, others more lucidly, according to his abilities. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant.” Hermann Hesse
Identity, Self Discovery, Evolution, Potential, Humanity, Personal Growth
Hermann Hesse Identity, Self Discovery, Evolution, Potential, Humanity, Personal Growth“All over, people were seeking "freedom" and "happiness" somewhere behind themselves, out of the sheer fear of being reminded of their own responsibilities and being admonished to travel their own path.” Hermann Hesse
Freedom, Happiness, Responsibilities, Personal Authenticity, Existential Avoidance, Self-deception
Hermann Hesse Freedom, Happiness, Responsibilities, Personal Authenticity, Existential Avoidance, Self-deception“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.” Hermann Hesse
Existence, Duality, Contrast, Philosophical Dichotomy, Human Nature, Life’s Paradoxes
Hermann Hesse Existence, Duality, Contrast, Philosophical Dichotomy, Human Nature, Life’s Paradoxes