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Quotes by German Authors
"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
"This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention."
"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
"Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin."
"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
"And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value."
"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
"I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power."
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."
"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
"I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing."
"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."
"The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."
"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
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