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Quotes by German Authors
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself."
"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
"Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it."
"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
"The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually."
"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."
"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification."
"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary."
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."
"Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe."
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
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