To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Quote by Hermann Hesse
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Hermann Hesse Quotes
- You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
- When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
- 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 wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
- It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.