J.F Hermann Quotes

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

Nature does not forgive.

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

The river is everywhere.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

In the beginning was the myth.

Is not every life, every work fine?

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Friendship is identification and difference

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

I still have more to fight for in the coming years.

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.