Hermann Hesse Quotes

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

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• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Up
  • Science
  • Method

• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Method
  • Analyze

• One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Reasons
  • Pretend

• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Inspiration
  • Technique
  • Method

• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mother

• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Facts

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Try

• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Done
  • Question
  • Result

• It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Way
  • Deep
  • Approach

• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • People
  • Change
  • Play

• I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Actor
  • Pretend

• Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Done

• We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Different
  • Dealing
  • Ballgame

• The Pain-Free Shopping Method: Buy a present for you, then a present for a friend. Then another present for you. Then a present for a friend. Then two presents for you. Then a present for a friend. Then go home, get into bed, and pull up the covers.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Home
  • Free

• this time, in hello mello, we expressed that melodies are like our girlfriend and our mother. uhm.. thinking once again, it seems perfectly fine to express it that way. that’s right. our fans, my beloved melodies.. who behaves like my mother and my girlfriend. this relationship is really precious and lovely. and because of that, there were issue that made both of us upset.. i, we, would love to have people’s love and attention. we came to where we are right now, from 2 years back. and for sure, we would want to continue going on like this in future. and also, btob and i love and treasure our melodies. never ending and the urge to keep moving forward.. that’s our method of loving.

  

  Lee Min-hyuk BtoB
  • Mother
  • Girlfriend
  • Method

• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Prophecies

• I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Running

• Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Right
  • Read
  • Directions

• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Method
  • Pretend
  • Dealing