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Quotes by German Authors
"Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too."
"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."
"I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that accumulates new sinsand to the ancient makes recompense.I am exiled from your worldof pride polite, by pride defrauded,I am the king without crown.I am the passion without wordswithout stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war,is my same force that make me sick."
"It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight."
"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."
"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns."
"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
"But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies."
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
"There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero."
"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
"We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation."
"Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered."
"Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake."
"It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers."
"With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it."
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
"Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it."
"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."
"It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived."
"As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present."
"In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions."
"I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand."
"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
"So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal."
"The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things."
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