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Quotes by German Authors
"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."
"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
"Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter."
"Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
"I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself."
"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
"That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."
"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place."
"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"
"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."
"The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down."
"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
"For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being."
"Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to have their children taught a great many things, and provide for their skill in the use of means for all sorts of arbitrary ends, of none of which can they determine whether it may not perhaps hereafter be an object to determine their pupil, but which it is at all events possible that he might aim at; and this anxiety is so great that they commonly neglect to form and correct their judgement on the value of the things which may be chosen as ends."
"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."
"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."
"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
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