Heuss, Theodor

Politics can never determine culture, but culture can determine politics

Traveling means getting to a destination Hiking means being on the move

The worst thing that Hitler did to us - and he did a lot to us - was that he made us feel ashamed to share the name German with him and his companions

Man's talent for creating a habitat is surpassed only by his talent for destroying it

The only crap that nothing grows on is the pessimist

The catalog of German needs and distress is incalculable - if I were to list it, it would be a chain of gray misery

The meaning of travel is to get to a destination, the meaning of hiking is to be on the move

The outer freedom of the many derives from the inner freedom of the individual

A finance adviser may be sullen, but not a study adviser! One sits over often unhappy acts, the other stands in front of children's souls who want to be happy in order to be able to get serious

A minor form of human insanity

One day machines will perhaps not only calculate, but also think. But they will certainly never have imagination

Shelter of German hopes and stage of German tragedy

Basically, this May 8, 1945 remains the most tragic and questionable paradox in history for each of us. Why then? Because we have been redeemed and destroyed in one

Every people has the naive notion that it is God's best idea

Now, win!

In this way, simply because of its being, Berlin has remained the historical centre, always the capital of Germany