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Quotes by German Authors
"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
"Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity."
"So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused."
"Time is that in which all things pass away."
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
"There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."
"A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters."
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
"One experiments and has to choose always the best results."
"I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows."
"At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion."
"Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act."
"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
"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."
"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."
"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."
"There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system."
"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."
"I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing."
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
"In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."
"The past has no power over the present moment."
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind."
"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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