"Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life."

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Source : Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

Werner Heisenberg

#Lying Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Despair Quotes

“In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.”
“Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.”
“There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.”
“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement”
“It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way that you're being seen, which is of course completely antithetical to the work you want to do, which is completely free and bold and truthful and honest and brave.”
“If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.”
“My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.”
“This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.”

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