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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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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Path Philosophy
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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Evil Real Time
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

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