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.
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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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