Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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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.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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