There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -Hermann Hesse

 

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.


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This quote is just one of 16 total Hermann Hesse quotes in our collection. Hermann Hesse is known for saying 'There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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.

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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

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

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.

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