Hermann Hesse Quotes

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Artist

• The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Best

• I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Why
  • Want
  • Stay

• I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I have always been a fan of Kajol Ma'am. The way she portrayed Zooni's character in 'Fanaa' is etched in my memory. I have watched the film several times, and each time I have learnt something new from her performance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • She
  • Character

• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Stress

• It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Job

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
  • Period

• Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.

  

  Angela Watson

• I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

  

  Elle King
  • People
  • Funny
  • Stop

• People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

  

  Danny Bonaduce
  • People
  • Rock

• Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Purpose

• If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Couple

• As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • People

• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  

  John Grisham
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Author

• I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

  

  Melanie Mayron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Nothing of this world is not in God. Substance is not the despised materiality of bodies that must be separated from God; it is God, God under the attribute of extension or materiality. Descartes is thus mistaken, according to Spinoza, in defining matter as extension, for matter must necessarily have a conceptual equivalent, an idea, not in opposition to extension but as one of the attributes of substance.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • God
  • Idea
  • Mistaken

• If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

  

  Bao Dai
  • War
  • Government
  • Won

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Crime
  • Human being
  • Respected

• ... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Republic
  • Sum
  • University Professor