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A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation. — Carl Gustav Hempel
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth. — Gustav Heinemann
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. — Gustav Stresemann
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. — Gustav Mahler
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers. — Gustav Mahler
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. — Gustav Mahler
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. — Gustav Heinemann
I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions." — Peter Webber
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework. — Gustav Nossal
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results. — Carl Gustav Hempel
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. — Gustav Klimt
It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children. — Gustav Stickley
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. — Gustav Stresemann
Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.
{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.} — Gustav Kirchhoff
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
The Holy Twelve dance with us,
All things join in the dance!
Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing. — Gustav Holst
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. — Gustav Stresemann
Maven Gustav, what is that awful noise?" Tobin bellowed, holding his hands over his ears.
"Why, it's my very own creation!" Gustav replied, beaming with pride. "I made this spell to be activated in the event of a castle emergency. In all my tests, it never failed to wake everyone," he noted, proudly.
"Yes, Gustav. It's fantastically loud. Well done. But what is the emergency, and how do we turn the alarm off? — R.S. Mollison-Read
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. — Gustav Stresemann
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. — Gustav Mahler
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime.
Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today.
Your giddy uncle,
Monty — Lemony Snicket
I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field. — Gustav Nossal
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. — Gustav Mahler
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. — Gustav Heinemann
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. — Gustav Mahler
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation. — Gustav Mahler
The face before him was like nothing he had ever seen before. It was smooth, with a black strip of cloth tied over its forehead, and yet it was deeply furrowed, like the sea, that can have tall waves but not a wrinkle on the surface. The eyes were like dark chasms and yet they were the eyes of a human being and not empty sockets. The skin was a greenish olive colour and looked as if it were made of bronze ... — Gustav Meyrink
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. — Gustav Krupp
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising. — Gustav Holst
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. — Gustav Heinemann
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. — Gustav Mahler
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. — Gustav Mahler
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. — Gustav Mahler
There is no self-portrait of me. — Gustav Klimt
Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities. — Gustav Nossal
Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes. — Gustav Mahler
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do. — Gustav Stickley
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. — Gustav Stresemann
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph Von Koenigswald
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock. — Gustav Klimt
I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish — Gustav Mahler
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. — Gustav Stresemann
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth! — Gustav Mahler
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces. — Gustav Mahler
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. — Gustav Stresemann
All art is erotic. — Gustav Klimt
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. — Gustav Mahler
There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty. — Gustav Klimt
Tradition is laziness. — Gustav Mahler
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. — Gustav Stresemann
I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence. — Gustav Holst
Man lives in greatest pain — Gustav Mahler
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. — Gustav Klimt
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business. — Jim Keith
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. — Gustav Klimt
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. — Gustav Mahler
The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever. — Keith Donohue
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little. — Gustav Klimt
This is one of the reasons I study psychology. I've never understood why people are so irrational. How supposedly intelligent people can believe and do obviously stupid things. I sometimes wonder if our ability to deceive ourselves gave us some evolutionary advantage, but I can't figure out what it would be. — G.F. Gustav
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible. — Gustav Heinemann
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. — Gustav Mahler
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. — Gustav Mahler
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. — Gustav Mahler
Authentic religion teaches one to imagine the other
to consider another's vulnerability and humanity. The beginning of ethics is this trancendent imagination' (Ingrid Mattson). The message, she said, to be expounded by preacher and politician alike is that all human beings possess a God-given dignity. — Gustav Niebuhr
May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences! — Gustav Krupp
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails. — Gustav Holst
Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. — Gustav Heinemann
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. — Gustav Heinemann
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand. — Gustav Mahler
All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. — Gustav Ejstes
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. — Gustav Mahler
To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way. — Gustav Ejstes
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. — Gustav Stresemann
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. — Gustav Mahler
This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely. — Gustav Le Bon
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. — Gustav Stickley
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. — Gustav Mahler
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true. — Gustav Klimt
Research from Denis Dutton, Brian Boyd, V.S. Ramachandran, William Hirstein and E.O. Wilson, among many others, is clear on the subject: we are enticed by forms, shapes, rhythms and movements that are useful to our existence. We find Vermeer's "The Girl with the Pearl Earring," beautiful, for example, because her face is symmetrical, a clue to her strong immune system2. As the neuroscientist Eric Kandel suggests in The Age of Insight, we are fascinated by Gustav Klimt's Judith because "at a base level, the aesthetics of the image's luminous gold surface, the soft rendering of the body, and the overall harmonious combination of colors could activate the pleasure circuits, triggering the release of dopamine. If Judith's smooth skin and exposed breast trigger the release of endorphins, oxytocin, and vasopressin, one might feel sexual excitement. — Anonymous
I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. — Gustav Stresemann
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come. — Gustav Krupp
God can only be comprehended as Love. — Gustav Mahler
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. — Gustav Stresemann
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. — Gustav Stresemann
It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies - not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn't create but calls. — Gustav Kafka
When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life. — Gustav Stickley
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse. — Gustav Stresemann
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. — Gustav Stresemann
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany. — Gustav Krupp
How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical — Alissa Nutting
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen
Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death? — Gustav Meyrink
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier. — Gustav Mahler