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Quotes by German Authors
"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction."
"Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace."
"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
"For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy."
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
"I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power."
"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it."
"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."
"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."
"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
"I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either."
"I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena."
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death."
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
"At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums."
"Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it."
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."
"I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards."
"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
"The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
"It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system."
"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."
"One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!"
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