Hermann Hesse Quotes
27 Hermann Hesse quotes:
"Love is stronger than violence."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Eternity Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
Belief Quotes
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"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
Books And Reading Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
Body Quotes
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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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"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."
Comfort Quotes
Middle Class Quotes
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"All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened."
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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
Character Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself."
Life Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
Home Quotes
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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."
Honor Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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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."
Value Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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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."
Words Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"The truth is lived, not taught."
Truth Quotes
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"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
Happiness Quotes
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"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader."
Responsibility Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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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."
Learning Quotes
German Novelist Quotes
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"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present."
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