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Quotes by German Authors
"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war."
"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany."
"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
"My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort."
"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."
"To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende."
"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed."
"The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe."
"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
"To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth."
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time."
"Convictions are prisons."
"The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?"
"Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you."
"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
"There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!"
"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end."
"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."
"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
"This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions."
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."
"They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach."
"Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland."
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."
"We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained."
"Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs."
"When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
"I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently."
"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."
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