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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ↗

— Hesiod

#bad man #city #deeds #even #man

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. ↗

— Hesiod

#best #mean #moment #opportune #preserve

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#breathing #capacity #every #feeling #life

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#always #become #different #distorted #express

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#also #always #every #every man #himself

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#dealing #insane #method #pretend #sane

I was pretty quiet as a child. ↗

— James Hetfield

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