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Quotes by German Authors
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
"But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat."
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
"Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity."
"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
"Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord."
"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
"Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world."
"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."
"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."
"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio."
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death."
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
"To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival."
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