We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?


Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your...
LARS VON TRIER
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots...
LARS VON TRIER
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You ...
LARS VON TRIER
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour...
LARS VON TRIER
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my ...
LARS VON TRIER
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join ...
LARS VON TRIER
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
LARS VON TRIER
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would ...
LARS VON TRIER
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
LARS VON TRIER
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm su...
LARS VON TRIER
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinkin...
LARS VON TRIER
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my li...
LARS VON TRIER
I always do something that I've never done before.
LARS VON TRIER
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth arou...
LARS VON TRIER
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
LARS VON TRIER
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made wi...
LARS VON TRIER
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
LARS VON TRIER
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself...
LARS VON TRIER
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav...
LARS VON TRIER
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
LARS VON TRIER
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misus...
LARS VON TRIER
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea...
LARS VON TRIER
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER
Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER
I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH
For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE
While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stag...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
ROGER VON OECH
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI