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Quotes by German Authors
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death."
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
"I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement."
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
"I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth."
"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system."
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
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