Hermann Hesse Quotes

He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Quotes to Explore

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Kara DioGuardi
- Great
- Learn
- Listen
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

Lata Mangeshkar
- Music
- Never
- Old
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel
- Protect
- Harm
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

Tariq Ramadan
- Free
- Question
- Ideas
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

Val Kilmer
- Myself
- Never
- Acting
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

Ilyasah Shabazz
- People
- Mother
- Education