Hermann Hesse

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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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. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#because #harmony #never #only #owned

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

Only the ideas that we really live have any value. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#ideas #live #only #really #value

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#constitutes #days #down #each #ever

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#affirmative #answer #call #death #eternal

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#eternity #joke #just #long #mere

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#how #object #talent

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#home #intersect #like #looks #never