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Quotes by German Authors
"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
"Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out."
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."
"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
"I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere."
"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
"If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light."
"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
"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."
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
"The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world."
"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch."
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present."
"The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious society" that fights in its own interest and thus has ceased to be the church of God in the world."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
"I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."
"I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits."
"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
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