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My Pillow gazes upon me at night
Empty as a gravestone;
I never thought it would be so bitter
To ...
Empty as a gravestone;
I never thought it would be so bitter
To ...
poem by Hermann Hesse
You brothers, who are mine,
Poor people, near and far,
Longing for every star,
Dream of relief fr...
Poor people, near and far,
Longing for every star,
Dream of relief fr...
poem by Hermann Hesse
Many thousand glittering motes
Crowd forward greedily together
In trembling circles.
Extravagantl...
Crowd forward greedily together
In trembling circles.
Extravagantl...
poem by Hermann Hesse
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see th...
quote by Paul Klee
How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everythi...
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everythi...
poem by Hermann Hesse
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet....
quote by Paul Klee
I walk so often, late, along the streets,
Lower my gaze, and hurry, full of dread,
Suddenly, silen...
Lower my gaze, and hurry, full of dread,
Suddenly, silen...
poem by Hermann Hesse
She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place....
quote by Johanna Spyri
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane....
quote by Hermann Hesse
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...
quote by Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest....
quote by Hermann Hesse
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought....
quote by Johanna Spyri
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
quote by Hermann Hesse
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
quote by Hermann Hesse
Anger has overpowered him, and driven him to a revenge which was rather a stupid one, I must acknowl...
quote by Johanna Spyri
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never....
quote by Hermann Hesse
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract...
quote by Paul Klee
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened....
quote by Hermann Hesse
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being....
quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mirrors are not more silent
nor the creeping dawn more secretive;
in the moonlight, you are that p...
nor the creeping dawn more secretive;
in the moonlight, you are that p...
poem by Jorge Luis Borges
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I...
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Oh destiny of Borges
to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world
or across that single and...
to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world
or across that single and...
poem by Jorge Luis Borges
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character....
quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”...
quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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