Pretty things Quote by Hermann Hesse

“Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense…

— John Berger

“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word is never…

— Victor Hugo

“He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place…

— Hermann Hesse

“I had thought the second sight was a dream, or a vision, a sudden rush of breath. I had thought that the truth might…

— Susan Fletcher

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world of shadows,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.”

— Frank Herbert

“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Before our eyes, at least before mine (not hers, perhaps), everything was veiled in impenetrable darkness. "It's the inner chambers," I thought, and I…

— Robert Walser

“The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does…

— John Ruskin

“I pretend not to teach, but to inquire; and therefore cannot but confess here again,–that external and internal sensation are the only passages I…

— John Locke

“In the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself, to consider myself and my condition, to measure the life I'd…

— Steve Martin