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50 quotes
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
“If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."
on Life
"I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got."
"I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood."
on Knowledge
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."
on Philosophy
"Solitude is independence."
"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."
on History
"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."
on Fear
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
on Happiness
"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."
"The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."
"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
"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."
on Self Awareness
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."
"Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace."
on Mindfulness
"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."
on Inspirational
"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself."
"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
on Wisdom
"Faith is stronger than so-called reason."
on Faith
"All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take."
on Love
"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."
