Hermann Hesse Quotes

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Hermann Hesse

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• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Culture
  • Books
  • Hip Hop

• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Baseball
  • Lovely
  • Enjoyed

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Rich

• I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Model

• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Political
  • Years

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Care
  • Him

• I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Problem
  • Days
  • Spend

• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• Every note is a lifetime for itself.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Lifetime
  • Itself
  • Note

• Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Sun
  • Laugh
  • London

• I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Healing
  • Disease
  • Discovered

• I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Moving

• And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Laugh
  • Doctrine
  • Important Thing