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 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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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 bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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 magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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