Erich Heller quotes
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“Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.”
-- Erich HellerSource : Erich Heller (1975). “The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought”, Putnam Aeronautical Books
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“In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.”
-- Erich HellerSource : Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr
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“Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute”
-- Erich Heller
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“God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.”
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“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
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“If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.”
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“I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.”
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“Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.”
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“It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.”
Source : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”
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