Quotes of the Centuries

Below are quotes, sayings or excerpts which you may or may not derive interest and wisdom from. Indulge...

'The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!'
-Apollon Maykov.

'If the truth shall kill them, let them die.'
-Immanuel Kant.

'Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die; but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind?'
-Adolf Hitler.

'The First Death: The physical body ceases to function.

The Second Death: The body is buried or cremated, marking the end of physical presence.

The Third Death: The moment someone speaks your name for the last time, signifying the loss of memory and legacy.'

-David Eagleman's 2010 book, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlive.

'Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.'
-Norman Cousins.

'It is natural to think that the god of the Hebrews was not the begetter of the whole universe with lordship over the whole, but rather, as I said before, that he is confined within limits, and that since his empire has bounds we must conceive of him as only one among the crowd of other gods.'
-Emperor Julian, Against the Galileans .

'Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.'
-The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Protocol 4.

'Ein deutsches Mädschen!
Deutschland wird alles Leid ertragen und eine neue welt schaffen Sagte
Maria Schultz am 12. Februar 1945 In Erwartung des Todesurteils.'

A German girl!
Germany will endure all suffering and create a new world.
Said Maria Schultz [BDM-Führerin] on February 12, 1945, while awaiting her death sentence. Maria lived in Monschau, near Aachen.
-This poster was made after the Allies had occupied parts of Germany. To resist their murderous tyranny was usually death. Maria was 17 years old.

'The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.'
-Herodotus.

'Je härter die Zeit,
desto fester unser Glaube an den Sieg,
um so fanatischer unser Kampf!'

(The harder the times,
the stronger our belief in victory,
the more fanatical our fight!'
-Rheinische Landeszeitung, December 23, 1944, number 333. A torn newspaper clipping from the last desperate days of WWII.