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Quotes by German Authors
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"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."
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
"I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has."
"My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun " be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool."
"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me."
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
"Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord."
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
"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."
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
"Genius lives only one storey above madness."
"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."
"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."
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
"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."
"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."
"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation."
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."
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