J.F Hermann Quotes

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

It's east to start a war in any country

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.