Hermann Hesse Quotes

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Hermann Hesse

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Hatred

• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Dreams
  • Underdog

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Car
  • Car Accident

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • House
  • Dad
  • Myself

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Possible
  • Him
  • Sacred

• I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Live
  • Hope
  • More

• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Animals
  • Meat

• Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Action
  • Peace

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• '… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Today
  • Black

• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Integrity

• I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.

  

  Christa Campbell
  • Together
  • Giving
  • Amazing

• ...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Guy
  • Tennis
  • Social

• The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Friend
  • Value
  • Timelessness