Eduard Quotes & Sayings

The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all. — Eduard Suess

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. — Eduard Hanslick

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. — Eduard Hanslick

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery} — Adolf Von Baeyer

On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. — Werner Arber

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. — Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. — Eduard Hanslick

I would like to see more control and more criticism coming from Europe. The constant expressions of friendship for former President Eduard Shevardnadze, who made some contribution to German unity, were counterproductive for our country. — Irakli Okruashvili

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 19301 — Walter Isaacson

the church
should critically confront the persons come of age, whatever their calling be, and tell them "what a life lived with Christ is, what it means 'to be there for others ."'21 This must not be done in a patronizing way. Instead, the church should assist people in understanding their own coming of age better. — Heinz Eduard Todt

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself — Milan Kundera

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey. — Eduard Heine

Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution. — Jacques Loeb

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. — Eduard Hanslick

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia. — Eduard Shevardnadze

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country. — Eduard Shevardnadze

As for myself, I was never against Russia. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone. — Eduard Limonov

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I believe politicians should always remain realistic. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics. — Eduard Bruckner

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Holland is precisely a country of lean, fatless two-meters-high vampires. The living ones in Holland are only the buzzed-up-coffee Indonesians, whom they inherited from the possession of Indonesia, islands of exotica and spices. In actual fact Holland is a railroad stage between France and Germany across Belgium, along the boring coast of a gray sea. In Holland 20 million of vampires live behind the protection of a concrete-laid coast — Eduard Limonov

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. — Eduard Shevardnadze

On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other. — Eduard Hanslick

If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South. — Eduard Suess

Chess is life and every game is like a new life. — Eduard Gufeld

What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense."
"I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first. — Eduard Uspensky

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so. — Eduard Shevardnadze

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions. — Eduard Shevardnadze

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains. — Eduard Shevardnadze

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means. — Eduard Buchner

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. — Eduard Hanslick

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. — Eduard Shevardnadze

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation. — Eduard Buchner

The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history. — Eduard Bernstein

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened. — Eduard Shevardnadze

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees. — Eduard Bernstein

You know in the West they support realistic forces. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation. — Eduard Shevardnadze

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss. — Eduard Hanslick

The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase. — Eduard Buchner

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing. — Eduard Bernstein

When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage. — Eduard Shevardnadze

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation. — Eduard Shevardnadze

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man. — Eduard Suess

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources. — Eduard Shevardnadze

Later bad things will be said about Stalin; he'll be called a tyrant and his reign of terror will be denounced. But for the people of Eduard's generation he will remain the supreme leader of the people of the Union at the most tragic moment in their history; the man who defeated the Nazis and proved himself capable of a sacrifice worthy of the ancient Romans: the Germans had captured his son, Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili, while the Russians had captured Field Marshal Paulus, one of the top military leaders of the Reich, at Stalingrad. When the German High Command proposed an exchange, Stalin responded with disdain that he didn't exchange field marshals for simple lieutenants. Yakov committed suicide by throwing himself on the electrified barbed wire fence of his prison camp. * — Emmanuel Carrere

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops. — Eduard Buchner

We might as well study the properties of wine by getting drunk. — Eduard Hanslick

Many types of people will have to disappear ... Many people will want to join us. Possibly we will conquer the whole world. People will die young but it will be fun. We will burn the corpses of the heroes. — Eduard Limonov

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union. — Eduard Hanslick

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena. — Eduard Buchner

Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment," he wrote. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."30 Eduard — Walter Isaacson

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good. — Eduard Shevardnadze

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. — Eduard Bernstein

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. — Eduard Gufeld

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely. — Eduard Shevardnadze