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 HESSELoneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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