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Quotes by German Authors
"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
"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."
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
"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."
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
"I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy."
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"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."
"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
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