J.F Hermann Quotes

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Every experience has its element of magic.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.