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Quotes by German Authors
"Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party."
"The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers."
"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
"Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material."
"It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos."
"Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me."
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
"The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history."
"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
"Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own."
"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
"Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more surely and steadily will fellowship increase and grow from day to day as God pleases."
"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
"If you think your world isn't poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that's not because it's a dull world, that's because you're not poet enough to wake its soul up."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
"Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of."
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration."
"A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly."
"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."
"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."
"Put out my eyes, and I can see you still;slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;and without any feet can go to you;and tongueless, I can conjure you at will.Break off my arms, I shall take hold of youand grasp you with my heart as with a hand;arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true;and if you set this brain of mine afire,upon my blood I then will carry you."
"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."
"The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit."
"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
"Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports."
"With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate."
"The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other."
"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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