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Quotes by German Authors
"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."
"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
"I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there."
"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
"When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
"People's envy shows how unhappy they feel, their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are."
"But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."
"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."
"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist."
"The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?"
"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
"That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution."
"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
"You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind."
"The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full days on their tables are their own,to me the distant is reality.A new world reaches to my very eyes,a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;their slightest feelings they must analyze,and all their words have got the common tune.The things I brought with me from far away,compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:in their great country they were living things,but here they hold their breath, as if for shame."
"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it."
"The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer."
"In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense."
"For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves."
"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
"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."
"If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out."
"I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either."
"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
"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."
"The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists."
"When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently."
"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."
"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."
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