Theodor Haecker quotes
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“All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.”
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“The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.”
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“A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.”
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“When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.”
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“Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.”
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“The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.”
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“One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.”
-- Theodor Haecker
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