Quote by Hermann Hesse
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was t

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse

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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. – Hermann Hesse

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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. – Aristotle

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At a round table there is no dispute about place. – Italian Proverb

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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

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