Hermann Hesse Quotes

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Hermann Hesse

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• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

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• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

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• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

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• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

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• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

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• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  

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• I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

  

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• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

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• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

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• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

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• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

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• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

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• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

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• I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

  

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• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

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• Thankfully now, through the merciful hand of God, I do perceive and have been fully reinformed of his omnipotence. It is truly a love supreme.

  

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• I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper. Within six months, I got my first million dollars and I didn’t have to strip for bucks any more. Then I met Kurt and we still chanted, but we did a lot of drugs together.

  

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• The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

  

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• So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

  

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• Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

  

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• It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Alone
  • Judge
  • Choose