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1187 German Quotes

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Better Music Musician Richard
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Divorce Even Financially Getting
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Being Everything Inner Lasts
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

Absurd Become Christian Critics
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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

Agitation Blood Both Brought
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Around Constantly Distract Enough
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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

Artist Brains Common Enjoy
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Life is earnest - and always has been.
Always Been Earnest Has-Been
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Any Centers Family Hereditary
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The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.

Above Ample Fatherland Find
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

Acts Measures Never Ourselves
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

Article Best Erect Forever
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Sad truth Evil People Minds
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Most radical Revolutionary Conservative
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
Dangerous thoughts Thinking
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Totalitarian education Convictions Capacity
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Loving life Abroad Your hands Master
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions Tyranny Act Think
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness Key Action Freedom
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Forgiveness Way Irreversible History
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true
Point Dreams Come true
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti political forces.

Love Nature Reason Powerful
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Third world Reality Ideology
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes

Punishment Possessed Power Deterrence
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Action Distinguished Fabrication Possible
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Only crime Confront us Perplexity Radical evil
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake

As citizen Wrongdoing World All live
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution

Revolutionaries Power Street
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Politics Like Nursery Obedience
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Man Free Subject Necessity
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power Violence Absolutely Absent
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Greatest evil Committed Human beings
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Old truth Applicable Stood
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Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Courage Indispensable Politics Life
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

One Greatest Advantages Elite
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Nobody Author Producer Own life
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
War Luxury Small nations
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The only antidote to the reversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

Only antidote Reversibility History
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Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.

Good works Forgotten instantly World
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Revolutionary action Theatrical concession
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Half of politics is "image-making", the other half is the art of making people believe the image

Half politics Image making Art Believe
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Legends attract Test Times Ideologies attract
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.

Slavery Social condition Laboring classes
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ability Tell right Think Every sane
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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Moral question Answer Legally relevant
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent

Sum up Politically speaking Power Violence
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Last century Abundance Ideologies History
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