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Albert Einstein27 quotes
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein · 1901Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein · 1930The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein · 1930The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein · 1936The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day thinking. — Albert Einstein · 1936I never think of the future—it comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein · 1930All 27 quotes →Bertolt Brecht8 quotes
Who built the Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?...
Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? — Bertolt Brecht · 1936Reach for the book: It is a weapon. — Bertolt Brecht · 1935War is like love, it always finds a way. — Bertolt Brecht · 1939No one can be good for long when goodness is not in demand. — Bertolt Brecht · 1943Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another? — Bertolt Brecht · 1956All 8 quotes →Henry Kissinger4 quotes
Power is the great aphrodisiac. — Henry Kissinger · 1971The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security. — Henry Kissinger · 1994The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. — Henry Kissinger · 1969W.G. Sebald3 quotes
From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. For the time being, our cities still shine through the night, and the fires still spread. — W.G. Sebald · 1995We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious. — W.G. Sebald · 2001If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for. — W.G. Sebald · 2001Hermann Goring2 quotes
Submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing... Measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question. — Hermann Goring · 1941I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... A total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. — Hermann Goring · 1941Werner Heisenberg2 quotes
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. — Werner Heisenberg · 1958Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer... We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. — Werner Heisenberg · 1956Albert, Prince Consort1 quote
The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade, following as such the unreasoning laws of markets and fashion; and public and even private patronage is swayed by their tyrannical influence. — Albert, Prince Consort · 1851Hans Morgenthau1 quote
Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed. — Hans Morgenthau · 1948Pope Benedict XVI1 quote
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. — Pope Benedict XVI · 2005Werner Herzog1 quote
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder. — Werner Herzog · 2005Yehuda Amichai1 quote
God has pity on kindergarten children.
He has less pity on school children.
And on grownups he has no pity at all,
he leaves them alone,
and sometimes they must crawl on all fours
in the burning sand
to reach the first-aid station
covered with blood. — Yehuda Amichai · 1955