18 quotes found
“Sadness is also a kind of defence.”
“I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life.”
“Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.”
“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
“The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they sho...”
“Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.”
“...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.”
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both...”
“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
