Jo Franz Quotes

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Books are a narcotic.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

The truth is always an abyss.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

There is no such thing as happy music.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

History is the zoology of the human race.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Love is in the air these days, so we thought we'd give a try to make your day a little brighter.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.