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Quotes by German Authors
"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."
"I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded."
"Hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty: and many of them have not yet been discovered."
"In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic."
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
"I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
"A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind."
"Machinery which is not used is not capital."
"And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace."
"Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat."
"In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out."
"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."
"Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?"
"Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so."
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era."
"It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time."
"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."
"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
"I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar."
"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
"I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded."
"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
"In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them."
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."
"I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart."
"A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works."
"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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