Author of quotes: Hermann Hesse
I believe in man, in his amazing vitality, which does not fade even at the bottom of a deep ditch and is capable of helping him overcome the greatest degeneration, and I believe: this vitality is so strong and so tempting that it will always be felt as hope and as challenge, and that force that allows a person to dream about his high possibilities and again and again brings him out of the bestial state is always the same, no matter what it is called: today - religion, tomorrow - reason, the day after tomorrow - somehow differently.
Quote Explanation: Hermann Hesse, from a letter to Rufold Humm.
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MegaMozg 10-04-2024 / 03:48
The gap between them was growing, but none of them did anything to stop it. Or rather, Dasa should have done something like this, because the abyss was visible, in fact, only to him, and in his mind it increasingly became an abyss of abysses, a universal abyss between a man and a woman, between yes and no, between soul and body.
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MegaMozg 31-10-2023 / 11:42
The gods also did not live in eternal peace and eternal wisdom; they also knew danger and fear, struggle and battle.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
Self-immersion and wisdom were good, there were noble things, but they seemed to flourish only on the sidelines, only on the sidelines of life, and the deeds and sufferings of the one who sailed along the core of life and struggled with its waves had nothing to do with wisdom, they arose, were fate, they had to be done and suffered.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
What is a duty? How many responsibilities we often neglect without blinking an eye!
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
Scientists and thinkers debated the creation of the world, the sacred Vedas, the power of sacrifice and the even greater power of renunciation of life's blessings, through which a mortal can make the gods tremble with fear before him.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
Everywhere the deceptive game of life contained simultaneously the high and the low, eternity and death, the great and the ridiculous.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
If the happiness of his love for Pravati was great, then no less, no, there was now more grief, rage, a sense of loss and resentment. This happens when a person concentrates all his ability to love on one single object; with the loss of this object, everything collapses for him, and he remains a beggar among the ruins.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:41
The guess that the whole world, perhaps, really is just a game and a surface, only the blow of the wind and the ripples of waves over unknown abysses, came to the gazed shepherd-prince not as a thought, but as a trembling in the body and slight dizziness, as a feeling of horror and danger and at the same time passionate and languid attraction.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:40
And God saw everything that he had created, and it was very good. In reality, it was good and perfect only for one moment, in the moment of heaven, and in the next moment guilt and curse crept into perfection.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:18
In order for a person to desire salvation and saving faith, for this it is necessary first for him to have a bad, very bad time, for him to experience bitterness and despair, to find himself in a hopeless situation.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:18
The Savior's death on the cross was nothing more than a voluntary human sacrifice.
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MegaMozg 31-10-2023 / 11:18
The ascetic and saint, of course, should have looked at his life as a sacrifice.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:17
The devil pays special attention to those who flee the world and repent.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:17
For him, everyone was the same, whether they blamed God or themselves, exaggerated or minimized their sins and sufferings, whether they confessed to murder or only to debauchery, whether they complained about an unfaithful lover or about not saving their soul. Everything that was believed to him seemed not to be thrown to the wind, but transformed, relieved and resolved thanks to the fact that it was said and heard.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:17
