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Hermann Hesse Quotes and Quotations
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. There is no reality except the one contained within us. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. |