Martin Walser quotes
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“It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.”
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“Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
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“If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
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“Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
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“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
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