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Quotes by German Authors
"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
"The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world."
"At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further."
"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
"It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else."
"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others."
"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious."
"People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold."
"An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties."
"It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose."
"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
"The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning."
"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."
"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure."
"Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust."
"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise."
"When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."
"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."
"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"
"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany."
"Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles."
"The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah."
"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy."
"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination."
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