"A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations……" — Hermann Hesse
"A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages..."
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse has 397 quotes on this site.
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into…
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Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing…
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real…
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and…
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Love is stronger than violence.
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full…
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine…
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You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone…
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor,…
— Arthur Compton
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new…
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