Quote by

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.
– Hermann Hesse

Related Quotes:

  1. 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
  2. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  3. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  4. Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. – Hermann Hesse
  5. 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
  6. Curiosity leads to knowledge.Knowledge leads to understanding.Understanding leads to love.Love leads to harmony.Be curious. – Sabina Nore
  7. 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
  8. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. – Hermann Hesse
  9. Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. – Hermann Hesse
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. – Hermann Hesse
  13. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-”without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. – Hermann Hesse
  14. Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse
  15. …your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. – Hermann Hesse
  16. 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
  17. …and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. – Hermann Hesse
  18. . . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! – Hermann Hesse
  19. Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
  20. To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. – Hermann Hesse
  21. The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. – Hermann Hesse
  22. But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest – Hermann Hesse
  23. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. – Hermann Hesse
  24. Be aware of too much wisdom! – Hermann Hesse
  25. Most men will not swim before they are able to. – Hermann Hesse
  26. In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. – Hermann Hesse
  27. I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? – Hermann Hesse
  28. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  29. 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
  30. Fate and character are different names for the same idea. – Hermann Hesse
  31. Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. – Hermann Hesse
  32. 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
  33. Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. – Hermann Hesse
  34. Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? – Hermann Hesse
  35. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. – Hermann Hesse
  36. Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it. – Hermann Hesse
  37. Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to … – Gary Rohrmayer
  38. The path of love is not a tedious path. It’s a path of joy. It’s a path of singing and dancing. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  39. They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. – Bob Massie
  40. The greatest realisation in one’s life is this: You don’t have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world! – Mehmet Murat ildan

More Quotes

, , , , , , ,