In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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