Hermann Hesse Quotes

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Hermann Hesse

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Culture
  • Fast
  • Biology

• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Better
  • Clean

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Economy
  • Authority
  • Trade

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Horse

• I drink therefore I am.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.

  

  Dallas Clayton
  • Person
  • Generations
  • Albums

• I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Place
  • Orange

• At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.”

  

  Abdelkader El Djezairi
  • Knowledge
  • Mercy
  • Importance

• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • My Life
  • Chaos
  • Addicted

• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Chaos
  • Recognized
  • Converted