Hermann Hesse Quotes

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Hermann Hesse

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• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

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• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

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• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
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• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  

  Vernor Vinge
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• I hated school.

  

  Kate Mara
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• School didn't work for me. I hated it.

  

  Gary Paulsen
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• There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

  

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• Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

  

  Leonard Woolf
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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
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• I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

  

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• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
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• I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

  

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• We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

  

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• I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

  

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• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

  

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• One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

  

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• If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

  

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• It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
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• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Optimism
  • Hated
  • Mediocrity