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Quotes by German Authors
"In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams."
"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either."
"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it."
"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart."
"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."
"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion."
"Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed."
"I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had."
"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."
"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."
"The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms."
"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."
"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."
"You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for."
"Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river."
"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."
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
"We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions."
"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
"I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena."
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
"The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning."
"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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