Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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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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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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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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