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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Hermann Hesse
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About Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Hermann HesseThe truth is lived, not taught.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
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.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.