Martin Walser Quotes

• I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

  Martin Walser

  Believe, Important, Sensitivity

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with lexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Missing, Worldly Life

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• 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 anymore.

  Martin Walser

  Years, Trying, Not Interested

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

  Martin Walser

  Use, Cages, Language

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

  Martin Walser

  Negative, Indirect, Direct

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

  Martin Walser

  Love Is, Choices, Disease

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• You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

  Martin Walser

  Boxes, Has Beens

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

  Martin Walser

  Path, Language, Periods

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.

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• People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

  Martin Walser

  Struggle, Character, People

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Rhythm, Explanation

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

  Martin Walser

  Philosophy, Suffering, Study

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Atheist, Everyday, Atheism

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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