The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

- Theodor Haecker

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

- Theodor Haecker

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

- Theodor Haecker

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.

- Theodor Haecker

Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.

- Theodor Haecker

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

- Theodor Haecker

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost…

- Theodor Haecker