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Quotes by German Authors
"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
"I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things."
"Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image."
"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery... It is mystery I love and pursue."
"Moderation sees itself as beautiful, it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
"If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky."
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."
"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
"The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour."
"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."
"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."
"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."
"The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart."
"Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions."
"A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself."
"The "music of decline had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded slowly out over decades; its throbbing could be heard in the corruption of the schools, periodicals, and universities, in melancholia and insanity among those artists and critics who could still be taken seriously; it raged as untrammeled and amateurish overproduction in all the arts."
"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
"Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation."
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
"With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms."
"The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant."
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
"Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet."
"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after."
"Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability."
"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
"Capitalism is war; socialism is peace."
"Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that."
"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."
"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
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