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Quotes by German Authors
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
"Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow."
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
"The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears."
"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
"Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems."
"I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."
"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
"In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable."
"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."
"Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole."
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist."
"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."
"Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people."
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
"There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system."
"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal."
"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
"I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate."
"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
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