J.F Hermann Quotes

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

For Paul, the Holy Spirit was an experienced reality.

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Did all this make sense?

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Love is stronger than violence.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.