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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.


Hermann Ebbinghaus

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I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN Once you have learned to judge a person by their heart and personality, rather than by their outward...
L.M. HINDS When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love t...
C.S. LEWIS They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
TALLEYRAND They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of the...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Kindness is an open communication between heart to heart and not required to be learned by searching...
ANUJ SOMANY Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
SMITH & JONES Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result i...
ARCHER JOHN PORTER MARTIN Of this total, 100% learned the numbers, to write their names, and to read. 88% learned to read with...
CARLOS MARTINEZ Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten
PYTHAGORAS As soon as they learned of these things, they sent a cancellation of their subscription, which they ...
SCOTT BERMAN Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the...
ANDRE MAUROIS Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
SUSAN WIGGS The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER “Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA “Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER "Great quotes need to be repeated, powerful lessons can be learned by reading and pondering their wi...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to ea...
SUZANNE COLLINS I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to ...
KIM ALEXIS You want students to have learned it so well they haven't forgotten it.
DAN CLARK Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by tu...
MEISTER ECKHART When a human being has been taken over by their inner rage it can be very distressing for those arou...
CHRISTOPHER DINES Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. S...
ERIC RIES A lesson must be learned to be earned.
JIM GENOVESE Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human ...
TOBA BETA There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Kindness is an open communication between heart to heart and not required to be learned by searching...
ANUJ SOMANY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARD The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'gol...
GRAHAM FLEGG A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it ha...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN It's time to start thinking of parents and families as community builders and not just as service re...
DEBBIE OLIVER Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest so...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. For the rest, all that rises out of the sea of arithmetic is a jungle of dates, battles, exports, im...
C.S. LEWIS I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI They have certainly learned how to turn attacks into attacks on their supporters. They have learned ...
ANITA DUNN Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may ...
JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD At the moment this is a murder inquiry, but we will be looking into the lessons which can be learned...
MICHAEL TODD Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived ...
LEON TROTSKY Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY You'll probably see a similar type regime coming into power in Pakistan, which will be as corrupt as...
DAVID BAIN This time around, the conditions are much more favorable, plus I can't believe they're chimps. They'...
CRAIG CLAUSEN Just like science,
there must be other kinds of sensations
which haven't yet been felt TOBA BETA We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to e...
AARON SISKIND I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET When you have learned from life experience, then you have been taught by the very best.
SIZWE GOODMAN MAVUSO I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and comm...
LEWIS HOWES Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.
CHAMFORT That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference w...
SUSIE FINKBEINER Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
HENRY DRUMMOND I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.
CHARLES SOECHTING I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
KARA WALKER I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON We can learn from their heartache just as they learned from ours in Hugo.
CATHY HAYNES When they transplant a heart, they cut the nerves. The pains must have been caused by his heart hitt...
BETTE SANDERSON Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
UNKNOWN As we learned, they learned. And as they cooked, the boundaries got wider and wider.
AKIM REYNOLDS The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing in...
AURORA A laboratory analogy to repression can be found in an experiment by A.F. Zeller.
Zeller arrange...
ELIZABETH F. LOFTUS The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs
JAMES ALLEN Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I learned something yesterday, when they talk about the fire service being a family, I learned how t...
BARBARA LEFF Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas ...
SIMON SINEK Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the...
ANNE NORTHUP All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their differen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A child is no longer a child when they have learned of death. It will haunt them by day and fill the...
GARY COE Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand...
MADAME SWETSHINE In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...
E.M. FORSTER I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny...
FAITH BALDWIN It's amazing the responses we get from the people who have attended the camp. We can see the differe...
GIANCARLO FALCIONI The series will be tough for me in several ways, like different balls to be used in the series and t...
DANISH KANERIA If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not univ...
KIM THúY I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be s...
ADAM LAMBERT Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...
H. RIDER HAGGARD No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that th...
LARRY HARVEY Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...
PHILIP SIDNEY Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously...
RACHEL TRUE The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of on...
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HERMANN HESSE No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inh...
HERMANN BROCH Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the...
HERMANN OBERTH Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor i...
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HERMANN HESSE The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was tha...
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...
HERMANN HESSE And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ...
HERMANN HESSE Suchen heißt: ein Ziel haben. Finden aber heißt: frei sein, offen stehen, kein Ziel haben ... Ein ...
HERMANN HESSE Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSE But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that...
HERMANN HESSE Yes Siddhartha,' he said. 'Is this what you mean: that the river is in all places at once, at its so...
HERMANN HESSE ...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force....
HERMANN HESSE Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the g...
HERMANN HESSE For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived t...
HERMANN HESSE el desesperado no querer morir, es el camino más seguro para la muerte eterna, en tanto que saber m...
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...
HERMANN HESSE Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo él mismo; es también un punto único, particularismo, ...
HERMANN HESSE Quien no lleva dentro un lobo no tiene por eso que ser feliz tampoco.
HERMANN HESSE Könnte ich es sagen und lehren, so wäre ich ein Weiser. So aber bin ich nur ein Fährmann und mein...
HERMANN HESSE He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
HERMANN HESSE Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
HERMANN HESSE ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but...
HERMANN HESSE There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and eff...
HERMANN HESSE I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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 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 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 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 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 The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them th...
HERMANN GOERING 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 Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
HERMANN GOERING 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 If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It...
HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMANN HESSE My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s...
HERMANN EILTS The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo...
HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE