Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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 deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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