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Quotes by German Authors
"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."
"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."
"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
"The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward."
"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."
"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."
"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."
"One thing, however, did become clear to him-why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery."
"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
"I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig."
"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic."
"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
"I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience-a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself."
"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa."
"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
"The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms."
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
"One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole " there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole, But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
"Everything transitory is but an image."
"I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space."
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."
"A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm."
"I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either."
"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."
"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."
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
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