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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' Ludwig van Beethoven

Say Thus Talents Industry Which Far Aspiring Farther Barriers

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Ludwig van Beethoven

Comedy Over Friends Applaud

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. Ludwig van Beethoven

Good Man Business Half Ought Must Only Troublesome He Call Understand How His Hand Artist Artistic Heavens Artwork Where Order Ask Really Things Receive Need

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. Magdalena Neuner

Home Me Feeling Only Knitting Also Being Brings

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Manfred Eigen

Practice No Difference Between Difference Theory

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in. Markus Wolf

Service About Results Devices Importance Most Obtain Bugging Bugs Were Been Lot May Where Different Flats Information Etc Interested Little Used Using Technical

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. Markus Wolf

You Pressure Nothing Unlike Says Case Cliche Exerted Unwilling Source Person Done Maybe Anything Popular Away

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. Martin Chemnitz

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Martin Heidegger

Suicide Philosophy Making Itself Intelligible

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. Martin Heidegger

Deficient Latter Possibility Proof Mode

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. Martin Heidegger

Action Think Enough About Still Essence Means

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. Martin Heidegger

Time Result Sense Distance Between Calculation Understood Commonly Measured Two

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. Max Beckmann

Reality Visible Seeking Through Invisible Am Which Bridge

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' Max Weber

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices. Michael Schenker

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them. Mike Nichols

Mind Thinking Inspiring Lead Limitations Them

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted. Mike Nichols

You Creative Learning People Matter Past Before Young Immediately Drawn Gifted Tell About Someone Writer Highly Nobody Knows Always Intelligent Intelligent People Person Any Maybe Anything Happened Young Person Turn Who

Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you. Mike Nichols

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. Novalis

Visible More Invisible Than Closely Connected

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. Novalis

Democracy Rights Men Christianity Fact Highest Root

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? Otto Dix

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. Otto von Bismarck

Three Seen Sight Inspiring

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. Otto von Bismarck

Wrong Geographical Speaks Europe Whoever Expression

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich

Faith State Concerned Ultimately Being

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