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Quotes by German Authors
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."
"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
"I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it."
"Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will."
"Architecture in general is frozen music."
"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
"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."
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
"I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena."
"The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer."
"Colors are light's suffering and joy."
"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
"One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above."
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
"Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name. Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness."
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
"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."
"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
"Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings."
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