“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind” — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)” — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
