There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable.
The good are attracted by men’s perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by experience. Besides which, opposition is true friendship. So they tell me.
Beauty is not a human invention.
But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
It’s no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think – to say it in your own words, without compromise.
It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
People don’t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don’t cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don’t poison everything...
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
We mustn’t forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.