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Quotes by German Authors
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
"One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps."
"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."
"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."
"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is."
"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person."
"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London."
"Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications."
"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
"I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement."
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
"Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse."
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
"Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it."
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal."
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