The seer will perhaps look deepest into the future when the present is calm.
—Hans Carossa
Good ideas are like mushrooms, where you find one you often find more.
—Hans Carossa
What one is, what one was,
When we part it becomes evident.
We don’t hear when God’s way hums,
We only shudder when it falls silent.
—Hans Carossa
Even the bitterest words that people say to one another seldom seem as divisive as the unspoken words that one expects from the other in vain.
—Hans Carossa
The years of getting up again after a tremendous collapse, these are the good growth years of the people.
—Hans Carossa
Life is a gathering to which only a limited number are invited at a time, and the invitation is never repeated.
—Hans Carossa
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Jean Paul German Novelist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German Poet
Friedrich Schiller German Poet
Werner Heisenberg German Theoretical Physicist
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German Writer
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