33 Quotes About German-literature

Everything that was created is good, says the holy writing; why not human beings only? Why should they be otherwise than they are? Strange! - This fills me with sorrow. To slaughter one's sensations and wishes on the altars of necessity or morality, one calls that virtue.

Let yourself live as you are without playing tricks on yourself, i.e., without trying to force yourself to love things that you cannot love.

Why, then, is everything on earth good except human beings? Why should they alone become different than they are?

Why do human beings cling with such strength to thoughts and opinions, as if they were what is eternal? Why can they die for them, when precisely these thoughts are lost with their death?

Menschlich zu sein ist die Rechte Religion.

Güte ist Gottseligkeit.

İblis: "Müzik her ne kadar Hristiyanlık tarafından kullanılıp geliştirilse de, aynı zamanda reddedildi ve şeytani bir alan olarak dışlandı-işte görüyorsun. Müzik fevkalade teolojik bir mesele; tıpkı günah gibi, benim gibi...

Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.

[E]ach individual is holy, it is God’s work, it is its own purpose. If it becomes what it can become according to its nature, then it has done enough, and what it profits others is a side issue.