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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 tea...more

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

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No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or caveWe pass forever, craving form that...more

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Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because ...more

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He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the ...more

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And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble perhaps in the end to abandon oneself to the crue...more

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...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

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É muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que não se conseguirá alcançá-la. Os ideais serão algo que ...more

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Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because ...more

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Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live i...more

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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 everywhe...more

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But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

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It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive...more

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How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters ...more

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even mo...more