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Quotes by German Authors
"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."
"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press."
"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."
"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."
"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."
"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong."
"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
"Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it."
"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
"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."
"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force."
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
"The more real things get, the more like myths they become."
"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary."
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love."
"There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at " if you will pardon the expression " a man's behind."
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
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