Jo Franz Quotes

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.

There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Servants honor their master by their service.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?