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Present Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- 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,…
- The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past,…
- When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for…
- All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his…
- Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon