Hermann Bahr Quotes

#1. What we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed ... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.

Hermann Bahr

#2. Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

Dag Hammarskjold

#3. I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

Hermann Bahr

#5. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Aldo Leopold

#7. As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Hermann Bahr

#8. The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It's not all about fun. It's not always easy.

Leland Dirks

#9. So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.

Hermann Bahr

#10. Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Ramana Maharshi

#11. It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12. Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

John J. Sweeney

#13. As I close my eyes in prayer, let me see the faces of those who need to know You, beloved Savior.

Billy Graham

#14. I shouldn't do this, Slaughter," Tom hollered down, aiming the shotgun. "But I'm going to give you one final chance to be brought in alive. I don't want to deprive the citizens of Cimarron City of the pleasure of seeing you dance in the air!

C.G. Faulkner

#15. Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

Hermann Bahr

#16. Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Immanuel Kant

#17. Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

Claudio Reyna

#18. It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

Hermann Bahr

#19. I like the way you make the silence bearable.

T.M. Frazier

#20. The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...
It's a vicious cycle.

Shreyas Tripathy

#21. Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

#22. Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

Hermann Bahr