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 HESSEGentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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