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 HESSELove must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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