". . . gentleness is stronger than severity,……" — Hermann Hesse
". . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force."
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Hermann Hesse
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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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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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