Hermann Hesse Quotes

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Hermann Hesse

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• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

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• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

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• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

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• I always thought everybody else was better than me.

  

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• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

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• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

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• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

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• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

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• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

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• If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

  

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• The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

  

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  

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• You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.

  

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• And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goals
  • Voices
  • Sorrows