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Quotes by German Authors
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
"They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment."
"The script was very explicit about the nudity that was supposed to be in the movie. Actually, they don't show everything we shot. They would cut here and it was floored. It was very embarrassing."
"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not."
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
"Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again."
"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
"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."
"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home."
"A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
"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."
"Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value."
"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."
"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions."
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
"In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams."
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
"The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil."
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
"A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me."
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
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