Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
And I’m convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.
Human character is smaller now, people don’t have durable passions; they’ve replaced passions with excitement.
It is a joy to be choked with thought.
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
And what about all the good I have in my heart – does it mean anything?
Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
I must play the instrument I’ve got.
The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
It’s goodbye to reality when love sets in.
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans – convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
I pretended not to understand. One of life’s hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.