J.F Hermann Quotes

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

The tree does not die, it waits.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half. He helps those who help themselves.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.