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Quotes by German Authors
"Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us."
"It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one."
"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."
"Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work."
"The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace."
"If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation."
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."
"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
"Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist."
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."
"So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's."
"Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves."
"Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front."
"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
"If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom."
"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
"When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded."
"Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures."
"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace."
"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
"I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done."
"I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."
"Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease."
"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."
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