"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning." ― Hermann Hesse Topic(s): Faith More From Hermann Hesse "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." "The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation." "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." More In Faith "The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this."― Chelsea Clinton "I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return."― Isabel Yosito "Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."― Thomas Szasz