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Quotes by German Authors
"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like."
"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."
"There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced."
"I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval."
"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."
"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
"For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding us fainter fragrance."
"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."
"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself."
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
"So much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. And that is what you, insofar as you are your own doctor, must now do, more thananything else."
"On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey."
"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."
"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
"The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed."
"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."
"Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being."
"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."
"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
"Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience."
"A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which robs either one member or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!"
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