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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
– Hermann Hesse

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  1. To deal with history [life] means to abandon one’s self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. – Hermann Hesse
  2. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-”without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. – Hermann Hesse
  3. …your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. – Hermann Hesse
  4. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse
  5. …and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. – Hermann Hesse
  6. I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art. – Hermann Hesse
  7. . . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! – Hermann Hesse
  8. Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
  9. To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. – Hermann Hesse
  10. The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. – Hermann Hesse
  11. You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. – Hermann Hesse
  12. But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest – Hermann Hesse
  13. Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself. – Hermann Hesse
  14. Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. – Hermann Hesse
  15. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. – Hermann Hesse
  16. Be aware of too much wisdom! – Hermann Hesse
  17. Most men will not swim before they are able to. – Hermann Hesse
  18. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. – Hermann Hesse
  19. In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. – Hermann Hesse
  20. It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. – Hermann Hesse
  21. It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. – Hermann Hesse
  22. I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? – Hermann Hesse
  23. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  24. Fate and character are different names for the same idea. – Hermann Hesse
  25. Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. – Hermann Hesse
  26. Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act. – Hermann Hesse
  27. Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. – Hermann Hesse
  28. Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? – Hermann Hesse
  29. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  30. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  31. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. – Hermann Hesse
  32. Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. – Hermann Hesse
  33. Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it. – Hermann Hesse
  34. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. – Hermann Hesse
  35. An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. – Hermann Hesse
  36. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity. – Zaman Ali
  38. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
  39. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
  40. History is the lie. History’s words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception. – Courtney M Privett

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