Ernst Toller Quotes
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Go West, young man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
