Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
Hermann HesseGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
Hermann Hesse... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
Hermann Hesse