Quotes by German authors

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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"Every creature is a word of God"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Klaus Schulze

"When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Most of today's music is done electronically"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Thomas Kempis

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"The willingness to learn new skills is very high"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

Paul Tillich

"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

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