Egon Friedell

Quotes

• “It is the politician’s profession to invent facts.”
• “Many things no longer appear as “miracles” to us, if we decide to look at them through the eyes of practical physics.”
• “Strangely enough most people only do sensible things if they are ordered to.”
• “Extraordinary, and yet when we look in the mirror of a higher possibility it seems understandable, even self-evident.”
• “Your history has no age, and your age has no history.”
• “Hope and curiosity are the two big powers which force us to continue our existence in repulsive circumstances. It is exactly our not-knowing that is the thrusting power behind our most daring adventures, the constant source of our action. A man who has seen all the twists and turns of destiny and its complete unity no longer would have the courage to do anything about it. He who knows can’t act anymore.”

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