Friedrich Holderlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Men #Heaven #Earth
I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Suffering #Born
I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Song #Flower #Tree
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Art #Artwork
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Country #Way #Humans
The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.
-- Friedrich Holderlin

#Wall #Kissing #Winter

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

Friedrich Holderlin famous quotes

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