In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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