Jo Franz Quotes

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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

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.

... 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.

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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

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

Writers speak stench.

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

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

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

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

Religions die slowly.

To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

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

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

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

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

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Writer speaks a stench.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.