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Things Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
- That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.
- Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that…
- This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being…
- Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
- For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the…
- It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned…
- When someone is seeking,†said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to…
- To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the…
- There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
- You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
- No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No…
- You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us,…
- I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
- One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all…
- He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming…
- Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at…
- Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps…
- That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little…
- And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle