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Quotes by German Authors
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
"To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach."
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
"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."
"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
"The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?"
"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."
"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
"I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has."
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."
"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
"For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy."
"You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for."
"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."
"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
"I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you."
"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."
"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."
"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."
"Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free."
"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."
"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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