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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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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Apperance Home Tree
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice

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