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Quotes by German Authors
"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present."
"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens."
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
"Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications."
"Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all."
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
"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."
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."
"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
"The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"
"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
"Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life " and being successful."
"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
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