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Quotes by German Authors
"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."
"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."
"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
"For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding us fainter fragrance."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."
"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins."
"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
"Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease."
"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security."
"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
"When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM"."
"The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible."
"On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey."
"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
"Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic."
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
"Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment."
"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."
"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises."
"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
"The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death."
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."
"Already the ripening barberries are redAnd the old asters hardly breathe in their beds.The man who is not rich now as summer goesWill wait and wait and never be himself.The man who cannot quietly close his eyescertain that there is vision after vision inside,simply waiting for nighttimeto rise all around him in darkness-it's all over for him, he's like an old man.Nothing else will come; no more days will openand everything that does happen will cheat him.Even you, my God. And you are like a stonethat draws him daily deeper into the depths."
"Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."
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