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Quotes by German Authors
"In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics."
"To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing."
"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."
"Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture."
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
"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."
"A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm."
"Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist."
"I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process."
"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
"Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole."
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
"Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."
"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
"When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back."
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
"And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone."
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
"Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life."
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
"What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites."
"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
"The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually."
"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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