The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.
Democracy must be our answer to terrorism
At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.
There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.
"The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world," she said. "Today is first and foremost a time to say thank you," "I shall personally never, ever forget this. "
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.