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Quotes by German Authors
"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."
"You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that."
"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."
"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."
"When one has not had a good father one must create one."
"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
"And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away."
"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper."
"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
"Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance."
"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."
"Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us."
"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."
"For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location."
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
"Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance."
"I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street."
"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
"Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea."
"If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable."
"When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life."
"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."
"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
"At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death."
"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
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