“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.”
Hermann Hesse
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“History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects. Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility.”
Hermann Hesse
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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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“I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn’t. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
Hermann Hesse
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“The truth is lived, not taught.”
Hermann Hesse
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“The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”
Hermann Hesse
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“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
Hermann Hesse
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“Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.”
Hermann Hesse
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“Love is stronger than violence.”
Hermann Hesse
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“Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object”
Hermann Hesse
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