“What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.”
— Hermann Hesse
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Category: nature
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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.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“The truth is lived, not taught.”
— Hermann Hesse
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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.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
— Hermann Hesse
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