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"Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, Den können wir erlösen."
"Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis."
"Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan."
"Wenn die Menschen recht schlecht werden, haben sie keinen Anteil mehr als die Schadenfreude."
"Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten."
"Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image."
"Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben."
"Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind."
"Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiĂź nichts von seiner eigenen."
"Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß."
"Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!” Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem Gemeinen das Edle, aus der Unform das Schöne zu entwickeln."
"Die Welt ist eine Glocke, die einen RiĂź hat: sie klappert, aber klingt nicht."
"Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles."
"Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte."
"Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende."
"Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love."
"Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden."
"You often say to yourself in the course of your life that you ought to avoid having too much business, 'polypragmosyne' [incessant activity], and, more especially, that the older you get, the more you ought to avoid entering on new business. But it's all very well saying this, and giving yourself andothers good advice. The very fact of growing older means taking up a new business; all our circumstances change, and we must either stop doing anything at all or else willing and consciously take on the new role we have to play on life's stage."
"You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge."
"Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt."
"Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt."
"Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende."
"Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren."
"The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth."
"Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daĂź sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find."
"Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original."
"Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words."
"There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to try to think it all over again."
"Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious."
"Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture."
"This is why we may say that those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites"
"Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit."
"Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden."
"When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom."
"A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth."
"The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted."
"Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error."
"Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art."
"Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte."
"Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages."
"Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke."
"A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed."
"Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist."
"Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building."
"Es ist so gewiĂź als wunderbar, daĂź Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deĂźwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet."
"Smoking stupefies a man, and makes him incapable of thinking or writing. It is only fit for idlers, people who are always bored, who sleep for a third of their lifetime, fritter away another third in eating, drinking, and other necessary or unnecessary affairs, and don't know—though they are always complaining that life is so short—what to do with the rest of their time. Such lazy Turks find mental solace in handling a pipe and gazing at the clouds of smoke that they puff into the air; it helps them to kill time. Smoking induces drinking beer, for hot mouths need to be cooled down. Beer thickens the blood, and adds to the intoxication produced by the narcotic smoke. The nerves are dulled and the blood clotted. If they go on as they seem to be doing now, in two or three generations we shall see what these beer-swillers and smoke-puffers have made of Germany. You will notice the effect on our literature—mindless, formless, and hopeless; and those very people will wonder how it has come about. And think of the cost of it all! Fully 25,000,000 thalers a year end in smoke all over Germany, and the sum may rise to forty, fifty, or sixty millions. The hungry are still unfed, and the naked unclad. What can become of all the money? Smoking, too, is gross rudeness and unsociability. Smokers poison the air far and wide and choke every decent man, unless he takes to smoking in self-defence. Who can enter a smoker's room without feeling ill? Who can stay there without perishing?"
"The ever-changing display of plant forms, which I have followed for so many years, awakens increasingly within me the notion: The plant forms which surround us were not all created at some given point in time and then locked into the given form, they have been given... a felicitous mobility and plasticity that allows them to grow and adapt themselves to many different conditions in many different places. ...How they can be brought together under one concept has slowly become clear to me and that this conception can be enlivened at a higher level [of consciousness]: thus I began to recognize, in the sense perceptible form, a supersensible archetype. Whoever has felt what a rich, saturated thought... has to say, will admit what a passionate movement comes to life in the spirit when we are enthused, and we anticipate the totality of what will evolve step by step...""
"The fashion of this world passeth away and I would fain occupy myself with the things that are abiding."
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
"Wir sprechen überhaupt viel zu viel. Wir sollten weniger sprechen und mehr zeichnen. Ich meinerseits möchte mir das Reden ganz abgewöhnen und wie die bildende Natur in lauter Zeichnungen fortsprechen."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.