Eugen Drewermann Quotes

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

Eugen Drewermann

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• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

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• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

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• In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.

  

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• It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  

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• Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

  

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• Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.

  

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• People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

  

  Eugen Drewermann
  • Belief
  • Choice
  • False