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Quotes by German Authors
"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."
"Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
"I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore."
"They all have tired mouthsand bright seamless souls.And a longing (as for sin)sometimes haunts their dreams.They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still,like many, many intervalsin his might and melody.Only when they spread their wingsare they wakers of a wind:as if God with his broad sculptor-hands leafed through the pagesin the dark book of the beginning."
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space."
"As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself."
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
"The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures, "priestly men, "authoritative personalities springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive."
"She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on."
"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
"Words derive their power from the original word."
"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
"Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous."
"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
"It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience."
"I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young."
"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."
"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
"Men still have to be governed by deception."
"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."
"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."
"Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church."
"War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene."
"Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it."
"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."
"Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream."
"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
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