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Quotes by German Authors
"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"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."
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
"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."
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
"It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation."
"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."
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"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."
"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."
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me."
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
"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."
"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."
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
"Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord."
"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."
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
"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."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
"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."
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
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