top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by German Authors
"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!"
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
"The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer."
"Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film."
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
"Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles."
"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."
"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."
"For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness."
"Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions."
"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy."
"Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender"
"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this."
"The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers."
"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."
"Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems."
"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
"Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that."
"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
"When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space."
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil."
"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
bottom of page