Knowledge 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.
HERMANN HESSEI have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Solitude is independence.
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