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Letter "H" » Hermann Hesse Quotes
«To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one.»
«From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.»
«Wisdom is only taught through experience.»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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Beauty,
Cruelty,
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Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
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«What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life»
«At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.»
«The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.»
«All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.»
«Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.»
«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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