Quote by Herman Hesse
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a sec

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. – Herman Hesse

Other quotes by Herman Hesse

I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. – Herman Hesse

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Body
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Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years. – Herman Hesse

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Travel
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Art
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Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. – Glenn Hughes

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Art

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artists obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession. – Alberto Giacometti

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Art

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Art

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

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Art

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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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Words have meaning and names have power. – Author Unknown

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There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Knowledge

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. – Talcott Parsons

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