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Quotes by German Authors
"No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence."
"By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands."
"He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation."
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
"People should always have something which they prefer to life."
"Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany."
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work."
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."
"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."
"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
"It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before."
"I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law."
"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore."
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
"The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point."
"All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population."
"And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence."
"The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality."
"Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production."
"I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help."
"The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs."
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