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.
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We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
Hermann Hesse in Steppenwolf
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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.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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.
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
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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.
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