Hans Habe Quotes

Man and rats are merely, so far, the most successful animals of prey. They are utterly destructive of other forms of life. Neither of them is of the slightest use to any other species of living things. ~ Hans Zinsser

One time I told her that she reminded me of that charming tale, the one with the red shoes."
Helen had always hated that story, in which a little girl who had dared to wear red shoes to her confirmation had been doomed to dance in them until she died. "You're referring to the one by Hans Christian Andersen? It's a morality tale about the wages of sin, is it not?"
His smile faded, and his gaze returned to hers, now appraising rather than dismissive. "I confess, I don't recall the moral of the story."
"No doubt it's been a long time since you've read it." Helen made her face into the inscrutable mask that had always annoyed the twins and provoked them to call her a sphinx. "The red shoes become instruments of death, after a girl yields to temptation. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart. ~ Hans Zimmer

Yet each, in itself - this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all - each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree - the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death - Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures. ~ Thomas Mann

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. ~ Hans Hofmann

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware from the start that it can neither replace nor surpass the experience of art. The fact that through a work of art a truth is experienced that we cannot attain in any other way constitutes the philosophic importance of art, which asserts itself against all attempts to rationalize it away. Hence, together with the experience of philosophy, the experience of art is the most insistent admonition to scientific consciousness to acknowledge its own limits. ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states. ~ Hans Reichenbach

A German Voice, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Calls for Euro's Abolition ~ Anonymous

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. ~ Hans Eysenck

Zurich in 1915, ... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times. ~ Hans Arp

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day. ~ Hans Rosling

You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it. ~ Hans Reichenbach

One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy
implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created. ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus it the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience. ~ Hans Hofmann

Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

Man will not live without answers to his questions. ~ Hans Morgenthau

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on. ~ Hans Kung

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you. ~ Hans Rosling

The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does not see that man's nature has three dimensions: biological, rational, and spiritual. By neglecting the biological impulses and spiritual aspirations of man, it misconstrues the function reason fulfills within the whole of human existence; it distorts the problem of ethics, especially in the political field; and it perverts the natural sciences into an instrument of social salvation for which neither their own nature nor the nature of the social world fits them. ~ Hans J. Morgenthau

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort. ~ Hans Frank

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland! ~ Hans Schemm

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Roses bloom and cease to be, but we shall the Christ-child see ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Be careful what you do, because what you do is what you end up doing. ~ Hans Glint

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection. ~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person. Certainly, his painting skills were excellent. His musical ability was better than average. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable. ~ Markus Zusak

It's nice if you're making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to make the album with one big story instead of ten small stories. ~ Hans-Peter Lindstrom

We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers. ~ Hans Asperger

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour. ~ Hans Fallada

God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love', ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships. ~ Hans Hofmann

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence. ~ Hans Koning