Friedell Quotes

#1. Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

Clive James

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

Scott Rigell

#6. 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

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

Egon Friedell

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

Egon Friedell

#9. A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

David Frost

#10. Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Georg Buchner

#11. 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

#12. Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart:
How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

J.D. Greear

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

Egon Friedell

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

Egon Friedell

#15. Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

John C. Maxwell

#16. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules make us strategically altruistic, not reliably or universally altruistic.

Jonathan Haidt

#17. Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Pythagoras

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

Egon Friedell

#19. We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

Henry David Thoreau