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Hermann Hesse
(2 Jul 1877 - 9 Aug 1962)
German who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Glass bead Game was his last novel.
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Science Quotes by Hermann Hesse (4 quotes)
How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.
— Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund. Quoted in Kim Lim (ed.), 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom: Words to Enrich, Inspire, and Guide Your Life (2014), 23
In the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.
— Hermann Hesse
From Das Glasperlemspeil (1943) translated as The Glass Bead Game (1969, 1990), 119.
In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child’s soul with poetry every day.
— Hermann Hesse
Quoted in Kim Lim (ed.), 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom: Words to Enrich, Inspire, and Guide Your Life (2014), 8
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulae exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
— Hermann Hesse
From Das Glasperlemspeil (1943) translated as The Glass Bead Game (1969, 1990), 168.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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