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  1. Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game

    To deal with history {life} means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game

    Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction
    book-quotehistoryobjectivity

  3. Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game

    Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
    book-quotehistorypasthappiness

  4. Hermann Hesse _ My Belief

    Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough. Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space in a single house or single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books.
    book-quotereadinghistoryliterature

  5. Louisa Thomsen Brits _ The Book of Hygge: The Danish

    Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore
    book-quotehistoryfamilymemory

  6. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. -Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997
    book-quotehistoryglobalization

  7. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.
    book-quotehistoryhumorhair

  8. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
    book-quotehistorysugarfads

  9. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.
    book-quotehistoryhumor

  10. Bill Bryson _ Notes from a Small Island

    I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.
    book-quotehistoryhumormotivation

  11. Ian Fleming _ Casino Royale

    History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
    book-quotehistoryuncertaintyhero

  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.There is no free will. There are no variables.
    book-quotehistoryhistory-repeating-itselfpatterns
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