Erich Heller famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.
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In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.
-- Erich Heller -
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute
-- Erich Heller
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
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God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.
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We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
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Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.
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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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