Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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