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Quotes by German Authors
"If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace."
"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."
"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."
"I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments."
"Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles."
"I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come."
"Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge."
"However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems."
"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me."
"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."
"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."
"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."
"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
"I believe that everything in life happens for a reason."
"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived."
"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
"You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good."
"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
"When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself."
"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
"The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer."
"Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today."
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