Gustav Stresemann quote: "As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses."

Mankind advances only through struggle.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became ...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territor...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poe...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable i...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil ...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government an...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid ...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to rep...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without env...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place m...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say wit...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the v...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its s...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the ...
GUSTAV KLIMT

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to ti...
GUSTAV KLIMT

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
GUSTAV STICKLEY

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of t...
GUSTAV MAHLER

Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse i...
GUSTAV SPET

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and di...
GUSTAV MAHLER

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and work...
GUSTAV MAHLER

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man who...
GUSTAV KRUPP

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
GUSTAV MAHLER

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sma...
GUSTAV MAHLER

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
GUSTAV MAHLER

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew ...
GUSTAV MAHLER

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his t...
GUSTAV MAHLER

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life a...
GUSTAV MAHLER

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few day...
GUSTAV KLIMT

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAV FLAUBERT

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
GUSTAV MAHLER

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
GUSTAV MAHLER

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simul...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook i...
GUSTAV STICKLEY

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today ...
GUSTAV KRUPP

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we l...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
GUSTAV MAHLER

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out...
GUSTAV KLIMT

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representin...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these sph...
GUSTAV KRUPP

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
GUSTAV KLIMT

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
GUSTAV MAHLER

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gift...
GUSTAV MAHLER

We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we l...
GUSTAV KRUPP

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Fortissimo at last!( on seeing Niagara Falls )
GUSTAV MAHLER

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
GUSTAV MAHLER

Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
GUSTAV MAHLER

At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara]
GUSTAV MAHLER

Fortissimo at last!
GUSTAV MAHLER

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
GUSTAV MAHLER

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion . . .
GUSTAV MAHLER

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to con...
GUSTAV MAHLER

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between th...
GUSTAV MAHLER

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and worki...
GUSTAV MAHLER

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?
GUSTAV MAHLER

I have had on the tip of my tongue for some time.
GUSTAV MAHLER

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Eu...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

A lot of personal stuff. There are some Swedish guys and girls that listen and do not understand exa...
GUSTAV EJSTES

When I discovered the samples on those hip-hop records, it seemed like what I had always been lookin...
GUSTAV EJSTES

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.
GUSTAV KLIMT

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
GUSTAV MAHLER

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, h...
GUSTAV MAHLER

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then t...
GUSTAV STICKLEY

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
GUSTAV MAHLER

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned ...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should loo...
GUSTAV KLIMT

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolute...
GUSTAV HEINEMANN

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
GUSTAV MAHLER

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step...
GUSTAV MAHLER

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
GUSTAV MAHLER

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
GUSTAV MAHLER

Fortissimo at last!

( on seeing Niagara Falls )
GUSTAV MAHLER

It happens right in front of the spectator's eyes but I misdirect their attention away from the ciga...
GUSTAV KUHN

Our visual representation of the world is much more impoverished than we would assume. People can be...
GUSTAV KUHN

People often experience the ball moving up in the air even though there is no ball present. They cla...
GUSTAV KUHN

Magicians seem to be able to carry out secret actions in front of their audience without being spott...
GUSTAV KUHN

We had a very busy December.
GUSTAV HUMBERT

Last year was an excellent year for the industry. There is still a big need for airlines to renew th...
GUSTAV HUMBERT

It does not lead anywhere. We are not afraid of litigation, only the effects of litigation.
GUSTAV HUMBERT

We are very pleased to enter into discussions about possible next steps of co-operation with our Chi...
GUSTAV HUMBERT

The higher the oil price, the greater the demand for more fuel-efficient aircraft. We should encoura...
GUSTAV HUMBERT

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.
GUSTAV HUMBERT

Today's agreement is no doubt the best way to celebrate our 20-year-long close co-operation with Chi...
GUSTAV HUMBERT

This is not a major crisis... but we can do better in this area.
GUSTAV HUMBERT

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
GUSTAV HOLST

It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness...
GUSTAV KAFKA

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
GUSTAV MAHLER

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, o...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The on...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

I had always worked with the temperamental conviction that at bottom there are no insoluble problems...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their childr...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the t...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise tha...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hyp...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The psychological context of dream-contents consists in the web of associations in which the dream i...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challen...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral person...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting f...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easil...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate im...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysteriou...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I d...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any rea...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it k...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the e...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one h...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself o...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness o...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any rea...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it i...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which open...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for my...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity w...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks b...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross se...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling ha...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.
J. GUSTAV WHITE

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our for...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who loo...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and s...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of m...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

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Gustav Stresemann

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

Gustav Stresemann

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