"The Odyssey is the story of motion both……" — Bernhard Schlink
"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"
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42 Quotes by Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink has 42 quotes on this site.
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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before…
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever…
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When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
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There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a…
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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up…
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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to…
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society?…
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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More Both Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— Aristotle
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
— Karen Armstrong
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly…
— J. J. Abrams
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're…
— Dave Attell
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
— David Attenborough
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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