No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Solitude is independence.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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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 know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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