Siegfried Kracauer Quotes

#1. The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

Siegfried Kracauer

#2. Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

David J. Chalmers

#3. If it is conditional, it is not love

Jaggi Vasudev

#4. Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#5. The world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.

Siegfried Kracauer

#6. No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.

Siegfried Kracauer

#7. Guided by film ... we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.

Siegfried Kracauer

#8. I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#9. Time will say nothing but I told you so ...

W. H. Auden

#10. I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Samuel R. Delany

#11. Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Heinrich Heine

#12. It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury ... and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.

Wright Patman

#14. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

Dan Deacon

#15. A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

Siegfried Kracauer

#16. The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Brian Tracy

#17. I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#18. I can't let fear direct my actions.

B.J. Tiernan

#19. He lowered his gaze to her breasts. His tongue sneaking to the corner of his mouth, he traced his finger across her exposed flesh. "Make love with me, Lady Jane.

Amy Jarecki

#20. The photograph annihilates the person.

Siegfried Kracauer