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Quotes by German Authors
"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."
"A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern."
"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
"Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited."
"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much."
"The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes."
"It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work."
"Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul."
"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."
"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."
"In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin."
"The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this."
"It is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality."
"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
"Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions."
"The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life."
"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."
"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him."
"I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good."
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler."
"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
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