Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Hermann Goering
Related Of course people dont want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war wh... HERMANN GOERING Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war... HERMANN GOERING 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 Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life i... HERMANN GöRING Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid:... NANCY GIBBS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL We can sit back and watch as our farm policy is disassembled piece by piece, ... or we can begin a d... MIKE JOHANNS The soldier headed out to war is in the best position. He can unleash his aggressions on his enemy a... WILHELM STEKEL This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS I think he's emblematic of a certain type. He wasn't against the war, just didn't want anything to d... DAVID MARANISS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.'... GREG GRANDIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Diane thought we should have the farm named a Century Farm. We really didn't want to go through it. ... JANE GOBLIRSCH I want to make sure, rain or shine, that people have cover. No matter what kind of weather, people c... BENNO DOBBE 22. Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a ... JAMES C. DOBSON Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to t... JON STEWART The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those scheme... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation. FRIEDA LAWRENCE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o... ROBERT CAPA We want people to really claim the farm and come together and make it their own. KRISTINE GREIBER Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, th... JOHN BYTHEWAY a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when... STEPHEN KINZER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM If you're on a farm, feces and other things have a risk of getting into the milk and causing contami... FERGUS CLYDESDALE Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye... STEPHEN KING When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye... STEPHEN KING 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The White House began airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry camp... JAY LENO We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through ... MAO ZEDONG No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a... IRWIN WINKLER We're building a growing movement against the war in Iraq that will give people who feel uncomfortab... MAXINE WATERS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The one thing that summarizes his style is that he just manages to get a piece of his equipment on t... GREG CRONIN I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe... MITCH ALBOM It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY All I want is for Flying Feather Farm to be able to farm their land. Compliance -- that's all we wan... PETE CLIFFORD You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to... ALAN KING There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonis... DAVID GRAY He of course will be remembered above all for his challenge to the Vietnam War when he ran for presi... WALTER MONDALE God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a func... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie... DONNIE WILLIAMS Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ... ABBEY LINCOLN Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop... FATOS NANO She's a farm girl, but doesn't fit in. She doesn't want to work on the farm; she'd rather write poet... ALICE BESTERMAN One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE If there is a positive thing to say about war, [it's that] it can be a wake-up call for people to ge... GARY SCHATSKY It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually ho... DAVID BURR GERRARD Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his ... J. LYNN As far as the pool of players in our farm system, although it's improved, we have a long way to go a... JIM BOWDEN God Himself is a man of war and He teaches His children how to wage war SUNDAY ADELAJA He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biologi... JOEL SALATIN This is unfortunate, but with his attitude, this should be no big deal. We all just want him to get ... HANK BLALOCK The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to ou... WILLIAM EASTLAKE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR This instant is the only time there is. A COURSE IN MIRACLES
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HERMANN HESSE Love is stronger than violence. HERMANN HESSE At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, al... HERMANN HESSE ...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and ... HERMANN HESSE When someone is searching then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that... HERMANN HESSE E ora vedi: questo "un giorno" è illusione, è soltanto un modo di dire! Il peccatore non è in cam... HERMANN HESSE Man svarbu mokėti mylėti pasaulį, neniekinti jo, nejausti neapykantos jam ir sau, žvelgti į jį... HERMANN HESSE He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree... HERMANN HESSE Meilę galima iškaulyti, nupirkti, gauti dovanų, atrasti gatvėje, bet jėga jos išplėšti negal... HERMANN HESSE The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is p... 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HERMANN HESSE E' sempre stranamente toccante vedere come la nebbia separi tutto ciò che è vicino o apparentement... HERMANN HESSE Dù bị đau đớn quằn quại, tôi vẫn tha thiết yêu thương trần gian điên dại n�... HERMANN HESSE Thật đáng hổ thẹn nếu cứ sống trôi lăn, để cuộc đời lừa lọc, thay khóc ... HERMANN HESSE No está la muerte ni allí ni aquí, se alza en todos los senderos. Está en ti y está ... HERMANN HESSE Más o menos, mi muchacho querido, todas la palabras humanas acaban siendo un embuste; donde relativ... HERMANN HESSE Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Per... HERMANN HESSE Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado... HERMANN HESSE ¿No irá usted a creer que todos esos bípedos que andan por la calle son hombre sólo porque anden... HERMANN HESSE [...] tutto mentiva, tutto puzzava, puzzava di menzogna, tutto simulava un significato di bontà e d... 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HERMANN HESSE Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure ... HERMANN HESSE Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi... HERMANN HESSE Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every ... HERMANN HESSE A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. HERMANN HESSE ...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear... HERMANN HESSE The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and... HERMANN HESSE One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. HERMANN HESSE And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most impor... HERMANN HESSE Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. HERMANN HESSE They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t... HERMANN HESSE Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ... HERMANN HESSE One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- ... HERMANN HESSE The river is everywhere. HERMANN HESSE Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or rejec... HERMANN HESSE I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other d... HERMANN HESSE He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself. HERMANN HESSE I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. HERMANN HESSE And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the go... HERMANN HESSE I can think. I can wait. I can fast. HERMANN HESSE When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing t... HERMANN HESSE . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force... HERMANN HESSE My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my ... HERMANN HESSE I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. HERMANN HESSE Your soul is the whole world. HERMANN HESSE Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are ... HERMANN HESSE I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio... HERMANN HESSE We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed man... HERMANN HESSE What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a res... HERMANN HESSE When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that ... HERMANN HESSE If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself. What isn't part of ourse... HERMANN HESSE My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other... HERMANN WEY Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. HERMANN WEYL I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li... HERMANN HESSE For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe... HERMANN HESSE We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ... HERMANN HESSE I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c... HERMANN HESSE So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g... HERMANN HESSE It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i... HERMANN HESSE We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i... HERMANN HESSE Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv... HERMANN HESSE It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ... HERMANN HESSE I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after somethin... HERMANN HESSE For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less commo... HERMANN HESSE In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one ... HERMANN HESSE People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. 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 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 What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness ... HERMANN HESSE 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. HERMANN HESSE The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimen... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le... HERMANN HESSE Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, ... J.F HERMANN Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. HERMANN HESSE At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. ... HERMANN HESSE (We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the gene... HERMANN HESSE The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no real... HERMANN HESSE I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to come... HERMANN HESSE I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of... HERMANN HESSE Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark wor... HERMANN HESSE You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the... HERMANN HESSE For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a... HERMANN HESSE An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope... HERMANN HESSE Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. ... HERMANN HESSE We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane an... HERMANN HESSE The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contain... HERMANN HESSE She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i... HERMANN HESSE You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to ge... HERMANN HESSE Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts. HERMANN HESSE I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so ve... HERMANN HESSE You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o... HERMANN HESSE I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s... HERMANN HESSE Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to ... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. Th... HERMANN HESSE There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unr... HERMANN HESSE Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within ... HERMANN HESSE Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no on... HERMANN HESSE One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, ... HERMANN HESSE In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. HERMANN HESSE Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped! You were h... HERMANN HESSE So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees hav... HERMANN HESSE Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie... HERMANN HESSE When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: B... HERMANN HESSE When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ... HERMANN HESSE No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found... HERMANN HESSE When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o... HERMANN HESSE I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am... HERMANN HESSE O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no... HERMANN HESSE When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily happen that the only thing his... HERMANN HESSE If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of our... HERMANN HESSE Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after the... HERMANN HESSE You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. HERMANN WEYL I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we... HERMANN HESSE Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in cons... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,... HERMANN HESSE The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the... HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. HERMANN HESSE He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r... HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille... HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of o... HERMANN HESSE Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c... HERMANN HESSE I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ... HERMANN HESSE I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c... HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op... HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object HERMANN HESSE To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo... HERMANN HESSE The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies w... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS