"Only the right name gives beings and things……" — Michael Ende
"Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do."
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52 Quotes by Michael Ende
Michael Ende has 52 quotes on this site.
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant…
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Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.
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At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars,…
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People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their…
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One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside,…
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or…
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You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing…
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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by…
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Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and…
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates…
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Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
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Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem…
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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