J.F Hermann Quotes

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Words can not express the joy of new life.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Your soul is the whole world.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.