Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit Quotes

“Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Learning and seeing are more important than education.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Bei der Beschäftigung mit Geschichte ist Langsamkeit ein Vorzug. Der Forscher verzögert die rasenden Vorgänge von damals, bis sein Verstand sie fassen kann. Dann aber weist er dem schnellsten König nach, wie er im Gefecht hätte handeln sollen.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred percent.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“On Sunday, May 23rd, 1819, all of our people embarked..." "Our people?" But they went on board themselves, not just some other people that belong to them. So he'd better say "travelling party". No, "the men under my command". But that was also wrong, since the phrase didn't include him, and he had installed himself on the Prince of Wales at the same time. "I and the men" pleased him as little as "the men and I". "We embarked in full number" was inaccurate; the "entire party including my own person" discouraged reading. "On Sunday, May 23rd, 1819, our entire party led by me embarked..." - Well, now what?”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Darum geht es nicht!" antwortete Eleanor. Dieser Satz machte Franklin Sorge, denn seit der Zeit mit Flora Reed wusste er nur zu gut: ein Streit, bei dem einer dem anderen erklärte, worum es ging, war ausweglos.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitän ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es verträgt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“That’s because the most competent among them will always try to change that small part of the world which they know. One of these days they’ll discover the world instead of improving it, and not forget what they already discovered.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don’t always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn possessed no words with which to tell what they had come to know from their long existence.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are coincidence and contradiction.’ John”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“This gigantic figure grew effortlessly in his dream, emerging from the deceptively eternal expanse of the horizon; it was like a truth that would make everything different. A crater opened up towards heaven, a mouth or a gorge. Perhaps the whole thing was a leviathan, perhaps a dance of millions of tiny creatures.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“When somebody says something that’s correct, he has no need to look good.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.”
― Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness

“[D]as Meer war unzerstörbar. Tausend Flotten hinterließen auf ihm keine Spur. Das Meer sah jeden Tag anders aus und blieb sich darin bis in Ewigkeit gleich. Solange es das Meer gab, war die Welt nicht elend.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

“[Auf dem Pult] stand die Sanduhr. Alle Körner mußten durch die Engstelle, um unten denselben Haufen zu bilden wie vordem oben. Der entstandene Zeitverlust hieß Lateinstunde.”
― Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit