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 HESSEIn 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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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