The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
FRANZ BOAS Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding sl...
FRANZ BOAS My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allow...
FRANZ BOAS In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is sti...
FRANZ BOAS I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due t...
FRANZ BOAS It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and ...
FRANZ BOAS In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under t...
FRANZ BOAS We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an ...
FRANZ BOAS Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the i...
FRANZ BOAS This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable ac...
FRANZ BOAS We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, ...
FRANZ BOAS The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
FRANZ BOAS The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of m...
FRANZ BOAS I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
FRANZ BOAS The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
FRANZ KAFKA Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's ...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to...
FRANZ KAFKA The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British E...
FRANZ HALDER By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is w...
FRANZ KAFKA One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
FRANZ KAFKA The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
FRANZ KAFKA Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it ...
FRANZ KAFKA We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates H...
FRANZ KAFKA There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
FRANZ KAFKA When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transf...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANZ KAFKA The meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKA Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view,...
FRANZ KAFKA Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
FRANZ WERFEL Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
FRANZ WERFEL I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I beca...
FRANZ KAFKA Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKA Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un lib...
FRANZ KAFKA The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fenci...
FRANZ KAFKA I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKA A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
FRANZ KAFKA In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, o...
FRANZ KAFKA You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
FRANZ KAFKA My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKA Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The ...
FRANZ KAFKA Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
FRANZ KAFKA In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and l...
FRANZ KAFKA This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, t...
FRANZ KAFKA There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and ...
DENNIS FRANZ Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who c...
FRANZ LISZT You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccent...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
FRANZ LISZT Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
FRANZ SCHUBERT I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
FRANZ KAFKA God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
FRANZ KAFKA So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
FRANZ KAFKA My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I...
FRANZ KAFKA Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and s...
FRANZ MARC Why does God endow us with compassion?
FRANZ SCHUBERT Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
FRANZ SCHUBERT The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
FRANZ SCHUBERT One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a Fr...
FRANZ SCHUBERT The moment is supreme.
FRANZ SCHUBERT Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the b...
FRANZ SCHUBERT I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers...
FRANZ SCHUBERT A man endures misfortune without complaint.
FRANZ SCHUBERT The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon conv...
FRANZ SCHUBERT I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
FRANZ SCHUBERT Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making...
FRANZ SCHUBERT I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
FRANZ SCHUBERT The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
FRANZ SCHUBERT There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good lookin...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
FRANZ SCHUBERT No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reac...
FRANZ SCHUBERT You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth i...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
FRANZ SCHUBERT If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you ...
FRANZ SCHUBERT When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you ...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little ...
FRANZ KAFKA It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
FRANZ KAFKA Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the...
FRANZ MARC No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of o...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling ...
FRANZ KAFKA Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...
FRANZ KAFKA If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte...
FRANZ KAFKA Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially av...
FRANZ LISZT We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would...
FRANZ KAFKA Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulat...
FRANZ WRIGHT My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
FRANZ LISZT Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been abl...
DENNIS FRANZ I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor...
FRANZ LISZT Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
FRANZ WRIGHT It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors ...
FRANZ KAFKA L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
FRANZ KAFKA The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
FRANZ KLINE Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of ...
FRANZ SCHUBERT By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourse...
FRANZ KAFKA The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movemen...
FRANZ KAFKA Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it eve...
FRANZ LISZT He was a guy that was sought after by a lot of people. He's got a chance to be a very good player fo...
BRAD FRANZ He's long, athletic and he can score.
BRAD FRANZ It's a perfect fit. He's one of those 6-6, 6-7 guys they've had tremendous success with.
BRAD FRANZ He's definitely off to a good start. He was doing the same thing at Murray, so none of this surprise...
BRAD FRANZ He's a very, very good player. I'd say he was one of the top three or four players still available.
BRAD FRANZ It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and res...
DENNIS FRANZ It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style becau...
FRANZ MARC Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and a...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our f...
FRANZ WRIGHT In a way, I was safe writing
FRANZ KAFKA I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
FRANZ KAFKA As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a...
FRANZ KAFKA The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terr...
FRANZ KAFKA False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
FRANZ WERFEL Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKA For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling...
FRANZ KAFKA You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
FRANZ KAFKA A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in th...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...
FRANZ KAFKA There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was bec...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element with...
FRANZ KAFKA Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at on...
FRANZ KAFKA As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER The Dutch are braver and more creative players, but less disciplined. They want to let the opponent ...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER He was sent off at the 1998 World Cup, and now he missed two penalties against France and Portugal. ...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER We're doing everything we can. But at the end of the day it's his decision, his future,
FRANZ BECKENBAUER It's his life. At 29, this is his last chance to sign a big contract.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA It's often safer to be in chains than to be free
FRANZ KAFKA I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered...
FRANZ WRIGHT German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian s...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER We will only agree to other tax increases in the talks if people with higher incomes are taxed more ...
FRANZ MUENTEFERING Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for th...
FRANZ LISZT I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly f...
FRANZ LISZT This was an obligatory appointment.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing ...
FRANZ MARC The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classi...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will...
DENNIS FRANZ Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptiv...
FRANZ WRIGHT One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m...
FRANZ WRIGHT Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
FRANZ LISZT When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER