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Quotes by German Authors
"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."
"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."
"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
"When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back."
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
"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."
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm."
"Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work."
"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
"Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle."
"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature."
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?"
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
"One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps."
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