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> [Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/take-bach-or-schubert-their-music-was-dedicated-to-god-but-filled-and/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

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## More by Martin Walser

> [I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/i-believe-that-the-most-important-condition-for-faith-is-sensitivity/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/language-corresponds-only-to-itself-intellectuals-suffer-from-that/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/as-an-atheist-you-cannot-fully-make-sense-of-the-music-you-have-no/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [“One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/one-can-never-be-as-naked-as-exposed-in-the-flesh-as-one-becomes-in/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/everything-direct-is-positive-everything-indirect-is-negative/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/you-cannot-spend-two-thousand-years-trying-to-understand-god-and-then/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/if-you-cannot-live-without-justification-you-cannot-live-period-and/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/you-always-know-more-than-you-think-you-know-without-being-aware-of/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/take-bach-or-schubert-their-music-was-dedicated-to-god-but-filled-and/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [“Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/love-is-the-fall-in-the-genus-liebe-ist-der-sturz-in-die-gattung/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/it-is-only-true-love-when-you-have-no-choice-love-is-the-most-highly/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/once-you-have-awakened-to-the-question-of-faith-you-cannot-simply/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/people-who-don-t-pay-attention-to-the-question-of-justification-are/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/you-cannot-simply-discard-god-like-a-box-that-has-been-emptied/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

> [Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-walser/those-who-use-language-and-have-nothing-but-language-to-express/)

[Martin Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-walser/)

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