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I remember when Bill Gates visited me to sell me MS DOS, his operating system. I told him we couldn't take such a retrograde step.


Hermann Hauser

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HERMANN HESSE Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSE He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal,...
HERMANN HESSE So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophr...
HERMANN HESSE No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit...
HERMANN BROCH If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
HERMANN HESSE The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, ...
HERMANN HESSE What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each...
HERMANN HESSE One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a ...
HERMANN HESSE You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas ...
HERMANN HESSE You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...
HERMANN HESSE There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself...
HERMANN HESSE Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life i...
HERMANN GOERING What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The peop...
HERMANN BROCH The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
HERMANN BROCH Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
HERMANN BROCH Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also...
HERMANN GOERING What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness ...
HERMANN HESSE Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
HERMANN GOERING Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
HERMANN HESSE Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its...
HERMANN HESSE It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the othe...
HERMANN HESSE The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no dock...
HERMANN HAGEDORN You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single sa...
HERMANN HESSE You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
HERMANN HESSE Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...
HERMANN HESSE When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we ac...
HERMANN HESSE The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. T...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
HERMANN MAIER As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, ...
HERMANN MAIER At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I fee...
HERMANN MAIER The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
HERMANN HESSE Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSE Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concep...
HERMANN HESSE Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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