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Quotes by German Authors
"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus."
"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
"Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what."
"The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands."
"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."
"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it."
"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things."
"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."
"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."
"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me."
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."
"When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me."
"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."
"The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious."
"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
"If you would create something,you must be something."
"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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