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Quotes by German Authors
"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
"A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany."
"If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic."
"True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict."
"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
"Again and again, however we know the landscape of loveand the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the othersfall: again and again the two of us walk out togetherunder the ancient trees, lie down again and againamong the flowers, face to face with the sky."
"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
"If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know."
"Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this."
"Man must do his part and detach himself from created things."
"What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God."
"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
"Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities."
"You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it."
"Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world."
"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
"Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less."
"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"
"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."
"It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that."
"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."
"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."
"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
"I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally."
"Everything in nature acts in conformity with law."
"Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place."
"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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