Egon Friedell Quotes

#1. All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

Egon Friedell

#2. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Rumi

#3. Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game...

Egon Friedell

#5. Then Anna and Archie took the number 10 tram from Sternen Oerlikon,

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#6. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Egon Friedell

#7. The trouble with disagreeable people, Tibbs, is that the majority of them seem to be either one's direct relations or part of one's daily job. Present company excluded, of course" -Inspector Percival Pensive

Jessica Lawson

#8. The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

Egon Friedell

#9. The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible ...

Egon Friedell

#10. We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Egon Friedell

#11. I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

Joan Rivers

#12. Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Gale Norton

#13. Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Egon Friedell

#14. God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Egon Friedell

#15. Everybody wants their child to get an education, but nobody wants them to get an education education.

William Deresiewicz

#16. Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

Egon Friedell

#17. Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

Egon Friedell