J.F Hermann Quotes

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Solitude is independence.

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

I will decide who is a Jew!

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?