"I realize today that nothing in the world……" — Hermann Hesse
"I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself."
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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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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for…
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of…
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid…
— William James
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual…
— Cynthia Heimel
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
— Francis Drake
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses,…
— Gautama Buddha
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual…
— John Henry Newman
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Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful…
— Mary Ruwart
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
— Wilfred Owen
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary…
— Francis Quarles
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