Carl von Ossietzky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

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