Quotes by Hesse, Hermann

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. N >>

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this >>

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourse >>

Quotations about History and Historians

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themsel >>

The Thames is liquid history. >>

The whole past is the procession of the present. >>

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

Hesse, Hermann