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Quotes by German Authors
"It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point."
"I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience-a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself."
"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."
"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."
"May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!"
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
"No God without a world, and no world without God."
"If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world."
"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
"Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center."
"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."
"I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be."
"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
"I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet."
"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."
"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."
"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."
"I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music."
"Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us."
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
"The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying."
"He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion."
"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
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