Quotes
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“All I need is a sheet of paper; and something to write with, and then; I can turn the world upside down.”
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
“Become who you are!”
“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”
“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. ”
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
“All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ”
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
“Art is the proper task of life. ”
“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”
“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.”
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”
“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.”
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
“Blessed are the sleepy
Impressum
Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirov
Übersetzung: Raia Iotova
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 14.04.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7309-9989-9
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