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Quotes by German Authors
"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."
"To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others."
"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."
"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle."
"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
"People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind."
"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
"The essential point of view of Christianity is sin."
"You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others."
"But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it."
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
"Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened-the gratitude of a convalescent-for convalescence was unexpected. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again."
"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
"The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses."
"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
"And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts,into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be."
"Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries."
"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
"It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system."
"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."
"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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