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.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. - Martin Walser
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
- Martin Walser
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
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.
I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty. - Martin Walser
I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. - Martin Walser
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.
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
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.
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 … - Martin Walser
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 …
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics… - Martin Walser
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics…
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 … - Martin Walser
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 …
Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative. - Martin Walser
Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.
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