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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.


Hermann Ebbinghaus

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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