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Quotes by German Authors
"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."
"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
"Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it."
"Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality."
"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."
"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
"I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done."
"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."
"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist."
"If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world."
"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."
"Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection."
"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
"Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good."
"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"
"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."
"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."
"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
"Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul."
"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."
"We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright."
"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
"Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue."
"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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