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Quotes by German Authors
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living."
"It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement."
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
"I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them."
"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible."
"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
"Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy."
"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected."
"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
"Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection."
"One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity."
"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood."
"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance."
"The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive."
"Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him."
"Colors are light's suffering and joy."
"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."
"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."
"Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic."
"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."
"No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order."
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
"I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough."
"Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front."
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