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Quotes by German Authors
"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."
"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough."
"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country."
"I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you."
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
"A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them."
"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past."
"You, yesterday's boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose you is the great desire.Now all flesh bares itself to you.On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire.Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine.Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you.But now, like a whispering in dark streets,rumors of God run through your dark blood."
"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
"The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter."
"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
"For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations."
"Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it."
"One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."
"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."
"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
"This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident."
"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen."
"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable."
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."
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