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.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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