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Quotes by German Authors
"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
"You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality."
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
"From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune."
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
"The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually."
"Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights."
"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
"I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate."
"Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world."
"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man."
"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."
"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
"Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good."
"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
"The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity."
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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