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Quotes by German Authors
"The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears."
"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."
"Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown."
"It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake."
"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."
"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."
"Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs."
"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."
"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement."
"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
"The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject."
"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
"Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside."
"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."
"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"
"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
"New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation."
"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."
"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."
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