Hermann Graf Keyserling quotes

Hermann Graf Keyserling quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.”

Source : "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.
“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
“Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.”
“As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.”
“Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.”
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”
“Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.”
“Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.”
“The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.”

Source : "The Mystical Qabalah". Book by Dion Fortune, 1935.
“On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.”

Source : Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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