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Quotes by German Authors
"We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light."
"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."
"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage."
"Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are."
"To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last."
"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."
"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations."
"At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings."
"Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course."
"Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad."
"Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists."
"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."
"Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being."
"You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me."
"Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either."
"I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally."
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius."
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
"When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
"Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security."
"In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke."
"On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions."
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."
"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."
"Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations."
"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."
"Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality."
"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life."
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