If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

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

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.