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Quotes by German Authors
"To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
"The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them."
"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
"Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
"Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe."
"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance."
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it."
"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."
"The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart."
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."
"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
"I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got."
"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
"Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land."
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
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