Walther Rathenau famous quotes

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Men #Race #Self

Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Destiny #Men #Light

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Intelligence #Opponents #Assuming

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Fate #Men #Three

In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Order #Secret #Demand

Truth is inner harmony.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Truth Is #Harmony

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Humanity #Sake #Spirit

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Strong #Men #Perfection

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
-- Walther Rathenau

#Destiny #Men #Europe

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

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.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.