Hermann Hesse Quotes

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

Hermann Hesse

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• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stars

• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Mystery

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Afraid
  • Entertainers

• The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The slippages were actually more dramatic than the costs. As we slipped, the costs were pushed to the right.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Dramatic
  • Costs
  • Tune

• If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Blind

• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • America
  • Death

• I think they'd be silly not to bring us back.

  

  Brian Krause
  • Silly
  • Back
  • Bring

• We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Value
  • Virtue

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Person
  • Doing
  • Successful

• They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny

• Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

  

  Socrates
  • Happy
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Interests
  • Contrast
  • Collective

• No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • You

• It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Great
  • Together
  • Before

• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  

  John Milton
  • Dies
  • Forsaken
  • Primrose

• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Human Beings
  • Consider
  • Angels