Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism. — 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 a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via dreams or by means of reading literature. It is impossible to learn from someone else's experience… — Martin Walser Copy Share
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
