Jo Franz Quotes

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Training is principally an act of faith.

Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

No one feels another's grief.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The limited circle is pure.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.