Quotes by German authors

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"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"In diagnosis think of the easy first"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

Hjalmar Schacht

"Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Berthold Auerbach

"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

Berthold Auerbach

"Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

Hjalmar Schacht

"The economy is a very sensitive organism"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"War is like love; it always finds a way"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Hjalmar Schacht

"The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Hjalmar Schacht

"But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

Berthold Auerbach

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Truly to sing, that is a different breath"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

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