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Quotes from The Return of the Time Machine — Egon Friedell

1878–1938 Austria

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Strangely enough most people only do sensible things if they are ordered to.

The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

Extraordinary, and yet when we look in the mirror of a higher possibility it seems understandable, even self-evident.

The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

Your history has no age, and your age has no history.

The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

It is the politician’s profession to invent facts.

The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

Many things no longer appear as “miracles” to us, if we decide to look at them through the eyes of practical physics.

The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Egon Friedell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.