Franz Werfel Quotes

#1. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

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#2. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

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#3. False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

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#4. Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?

No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

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#5. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

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#6. . . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

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#7. Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

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#8. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

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#9. Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

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#10. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

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#11. Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

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#12. Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

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#13. Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

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