Top 100 Hermann Quotes
#1. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.
Matthew Engel
#2. If anyone has the right to be measured by the standards of his own time, it is Alexander. Hermann Bengston, The Greeks and the Persians
Mary Renault
#3. Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
Aleksandar Hemon
#4. Mornings in the kitchen, afternoons in the counseling room, evenings out combing streets of half-lamplight: Hermann Park, Montrose, Sunnyside, Hiram Clarke, the Fifth Ward.
Colum McCann
#5. I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
Eric Clapton
#6. The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
Markus Zusak
#7. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther
#9. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.
Bernie Brillstein
#10. And please," Ilsa Hermann advised her, "don't punish yourself, like you said you would. Don't be like me, Liesel.
Markus Zusak
#11. Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Alexander Pushkin
#12. Well wtith a statue hermann cannot possibly fight
Eva Ibbotson
#13. There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
Nathaniel Rateliff
#14. Within you is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. - Hermann Hesse
Steve Martin
#15. If you prefer an "academic life" as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman who wishes to get even closer to life. - Hermann Muller We
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#16. Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!
Josip Novakovich
#17. The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
Otto Hermann Kahn
#18. Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
Hermann Hesse
#19. Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Hermann Hesse
#21. To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
Hermann Hesse
#23. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#24. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse
#25. My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
#26. It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
Hermann Hesse
#27. It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism I had brought with me.
Hermann Hesse
#28. Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me.
Hermann Hesse
#29. But it seems that Abraxas has a much greater significance. We may look upon the name as that of a deity who had the symbolic task of combining the godlike and the devilish." The
Hermann Hesse
#30. You're free this evening, Barbele. You just don't want to come.
Hermann Hesse
#31. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
Hermann Hesse
#32. Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.
Hermann Hesse
#33. Now, he had to experience his self.. . . But never, he had really found
this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.
Hermann Hesse
#34. I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.
Hermann Maier
#35. Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
Hermann Hesse
#36. There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#37. Yes, so it was, everything came back, which had not been suffered and solved up to its end, the same pain was suffered over and over again.
Hermann Hesse
#39. Above all Siddartha learned from the river how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgments, without opinions.
Hermann Hesse
#40. Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.
Hermann Hesse
#41. So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
Hermann Hesse
#42. How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
#44. Remember, my dear Govinda, the world of appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves transitory.
Hermann Hesse
#45. I live in my dreams - that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Hermann Hesse
#46. I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.
Hermann Hesse
#47. Naturally I belonged to the bright and correct world, I was my parents' child; but wherever I turned my eyes and ears, the other world was there and I lived in it, too, even though it was often unfamiliar and uncanny to me,
Hermann Hesse
#48. Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.
Hermann Buhl
#49. I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Hermann Hesse
#50. In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.
Hermann Broch
#52. Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.
Hermann Weyl
#53. In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.
Hermann Weyl
#54. Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
Hermann Broch
#55. Beginning to doubt the gods, there is only Atman ... and where is Atman found but in the self? But where is this self?
Hermann Hesse
#56. The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
Hermann Goring
#57. Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.
Hermann Hesse
#58. Our days are precious but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing:
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting;
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing.
Hermann Hesse
#59. The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.
Hermann Goring
#60. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts ... Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
Hermann Hesse
#61. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
Hermann Hesse
#62. Science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences.
Hermann Hesse
#64. I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
Hermann Maier
#65. You must throw away everything you have and wash yourself clean of the past; otherwise you will never be able to face the world [happy and free].
Hermann Hesse
#66. Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.
Hermann Hesse
#67. One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.
Hermann Maier
#68. A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Hermann Hesse
#69. Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.
Hermann Goring
#70. Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.
Hermann E. Ott
#71. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
Hermann Broch
#72. Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Hermann Hesse
#73. Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
Hermann Hesse
#74. Lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
Hermann Hesse
#75. I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.
Hermann Goring
#76. The town in which ... I had spent my youth ... had nothing to give me but memories.
Hermann Hesse
#77. The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
Hermann Hesse
#78. But he has not killed himself, for a glimmer of belief still tells him that he is to drink this frightful suffering in his heart to the dregs, and that it is of this suffering he must die
Hermann Hesse
#79. Inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.
Hermann Hesse
#80. Let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
Hermann Hesse
#82. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.
Hermann Hesse
#83. The purifications were nice, but they were just water, and didn't wash away sins; they didn't cure the mental thirst or allay his heart's anxiety.
Hermann Hesse
#84. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse
#85. The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is. I am ready to let myself be baked in the sun till I am done. I am eager to ripen. I am ready to die, ready to be born again. The world has become lovelier.
Hermann Hesse
#86. Knulp was right in doing what his nature demanded and what few others could do, in speaking to strangers like a child and winning their hearts, in saying pleasant things to ladies of all ages, and making Sundays out of weekdays.
Hermann Hesse
#87. Those who love nothing and hate nothing in the world, have no fetters.
Hermann Hesse
#88. No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#89. Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?"
The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.
Hermann Hesse
#90. Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around him.
Hermann Hesse
#91. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.
Hermann Hesse
#92. Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
Hermann Hesse
#93. All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Hermann Hesse
#94. The teachers apparently regarded a dead student very differently from a living one.
Hermann Hesse
#95. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.
Hermann Hesse
#96. Quite a number of people are able to feel the beauty of the world profoundly and vastly, and to carry high, noble images in their souls, but they are unable to exteriorize these images, to create them for the enjoyment of others, to communicate them.
Hermann Hesse
#97. In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann Hesse
#98. Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.
Hermann Hesse
#99. It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen.
Hermann Hesse
#100. Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
Hermann Hesse
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