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Quotes by German Authors
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."
"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
"The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
"Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe."
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis."
"We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax."
"A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me."
"In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable."
"It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is."
"I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think."
"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
"Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring."
"One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps."
"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."
"But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises."
"To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin."
"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
"Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing."
"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
"In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked."
"I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school."
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
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