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Quotes by German Authors
"But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests."
"Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review."
"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?"
"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
"Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty."
"A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition - that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favor of any inclination, nay, even of the sum-total of all inclinations... like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself."
"When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor."
"Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name. Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness."
"The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"
"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."
"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."
"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
"Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!"
"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
"Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."
"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."
"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history."
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."
"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
"Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?"
"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."
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