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 HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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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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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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