Happy 80th Birthday Walter Koenig!

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Ich suche immer ein einfaches Skript, um eine interessante Rolle zu spielen.  

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

Religiöse Toleranz ist etwas, was wir alle üben sollten; jedoch hat es mehr Verfolgung und Gräueltaten gegeben, die im Namen der Religion und religiösen Freiheit begangen wurden, als irgend etwas anderes.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 

I didn't watch Raumschiff Enterprise the first year it was on, before I was on the show. I took one look at the Styrofoam rocks and said: "There's no way I'm going to watch this!

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. 

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 

Enterprise has given me a considerable amount of satisfaction and a certain amount of respect in the industry community and among people who watch TV and movies. I enjoy that. I enjoy feeling good about myself. God knows it's easy enough for me to feel bad about myself -- I need all the support I can get. Star Trek deserves the respect it has received. If I'm going to be aligned with something, it might as well be something that makes a worthwhile statement most of the time. No, I don't have any regrets about my involvement with Star Trek.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. 

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

I was only one of two people who auditioned for the part, which is quite extraordinary. Considering that this has so materially effected the last 35 years of my life... a couple of hours after I auditioned, I heard that I had gotten the role.

Twittering:
Fed Con: The most enthusiastic , energetic and supportive Star Trek fans anywhere. Just blew my mind away

The Sitges International Film Festival in Spain  - "the worlds's foremost science fiction and fantasy film festival "...

I think this is going to be extraordinary.

Once again ST Creation Con Las Vegas was absolutely amazing!

Payson Ave.? Lee, I'd ask if we ever knew each other but with at least 25 years between our ages I'd have to believe that we do not.

I think we have an excellent picture but we need money for post production.  Renegades II : Requiem ...

the saga of Pavel Chekov. I've heard the story and it's very exciting. Undoubtedly, the  best about his life I've ever heard.

Was misinformed on the name of the award. It's called "The Time Machine" award.

The Republican Benghazi Committee is a sham. It's time to shut it down. 

I don't know Leslie Jones. I wish I did. I bet she'd be great fun to hang out with.

I grew up during W.W. II thinking Germans were born that way and gay people were not. 
Knowledge is a wonderful thing.

will bestow their Maria Honorary Award for career achievement to Walter Koenig in October of 2016.  Past  award winners include Anthony...

That is incredible! More than incredible!!l

Correction: the footage Ill be shooting for "Captain Pike" is not a trailer but about 25 minutes
from the story itself.
Was fitted for a uniform  today. Actually fits rather well. Things are shaping up with that project!
If you're coming to the Rose City Con in Portland this weekend look for footage from a new film "Neil Stryker Tyrant of Time". Funny stuff!
Had  lunch with "Nobility" producer today. His fully edited film will premier at Comikazie Con in L.A. over Halloween weekend. I'll be there
But enough about me.

You can't obligate friends to help. They do it out of friendship or not. Someone with millions of followers said he'd get the word out....
and did not. So we're starting  over at Indiegogo and looking to raise $50,000 to shoot the first third of the film. We're determined

We know the project is that good. I'm talking about "Star Trek: Captain Pike". The link is  http://tinyurl.com/p94xfnz    Please check us out.

I misspoke regarding Captain Pike. It's definitely not a pod cast. It's a 45 minute film regarding the adventures of Capt. Pike.
My contribution is an actor and as one of the writers and producers. My vision is to make it as edgy as "Mad Men" and "Game of Thrones".
Unexpected behavior from the characters and unexpected plot twists are things that Todd Tei, Walter Dody and I are looking to bring to it.
Please go to Kick Start "Star Trek: Captain Pike" for information on the actors already on board. I'm excited. Hope you will be too.

I know someone who knows someone who catches feral cats for a living. There's got to be a screenplay in there somewhere. Any ideas?

At the airport. A 15 year old with eyes wide, trembling lips and chin spittle  cries out "IT'S WALTER KLINGON" . Hand to God.

"Boy, do you look old!", says the disco guy curling his lip. I was 39 then. I must be 10 years dead now and writing this from my grave.

Wow! I'm genuinely overwhelmed. Thanks George and Nichelle. The response is amazing! Hope I'll have some interesting things to report.

I promise I won't chat about what time I stepped off the curb or my dripping faucet.

I skipped over water, I  danced over sea
And all the birds in water couldn't catch me
...I mean, really, what more could you ask for?

The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me,
And all for the sake of my little nut tree.

I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bare
But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;

My shrink tells me the reason we're all here is to "actualize" our potential. 
I can buy that.

How about "top of the heap stoked"? There are more than seven thousand people under you.

Got a 7 minute film on You Tube  under:   Walter Koenig Handball

I've just  come back from a dinner for wounded soldiers. The obscenity of war was never more evident.

I've written a graphic novel  handled by a publisher with limited resources. I need  help to spread the word.


I'm very new at this. I'd love to say something witty every day and announce something you've never heard before every several hours.

Happy Birthday Jeffrey Combs!

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

"Bride of Re-Animator" was cobbled together. I don't really have all the details, but I think there were some issues with the script they were going to shoot. Someone claimed they had propriety over some of the ideas. So at the last minute, the script that was going to be shot was jettisoned, and the one we shot was thrown together. I feel there were some great moments in that movie. Especially, the sort of idea of building a human being out of parts: I really love that whole classic horror idea. But I think the tone got lost a little. Sometimes movies are on a track to get made and you don't have time to pull over and do a polish, because the deal is the deal and we've got a start date, and the money goes away if we don't. It suffered from all of that.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Brian Yuzna, who produced Re-Animator, was directing this trilogy of horror stories, and the glue that bound them together was this interweaving story of Lovecraft coming to an exotic, mystical library. He wanted me to play Lovecraft. I kind of resisted. I said, "I don't look like Lovecraft." But John Vulich is a great special-effects makeup artist. He really got me looking like him as much as he possibly could with a chin and a nose. I always felt weird portraying Lovecraft in that movie, because Brian, for the project, really wanted Lovecraft to be an Indiana Jones character, and that's not a particularly accurate portrayal of Lovecraft, if you've read any of his biographies. You do what you can with what you've got.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

"From Beyond" was a very difficult movie. I'm kind of schizo about it. It involved a lot of makeup. I counted it up once, it was 30 days in that hideous, bald-headed, dog-dick-out-of-my-forehead thing. I hated it. It was so uncomfortable. And yet on the flip side of that, it was shot out of Rome, Italy, and I got to spend a glorious eight weeks in one of the world's greatest capitals. It was good. I feel like Charles Dickens: It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. But I also felt like the role in From Beyond was so polar-opposite to what I had done in Re-Animator, where I played a strong, driving personality that pushed the action forward. Here, I was really-for all intents and purposes-being a victim. Someone standing there going, "No!" So I felt like some of the tools in my kit were being taken away from me. That was a bit frustrating, too.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

God, I had no idea what was to come. All I knew was, I was doing a play in Hollywood, and a casting director came to see it. I did not invite him. As I recall, he said, "I'm casting something you might be right for." I went in and met Stuart Gordon, did my read, got a callback where I was paired up with the great David Gale. We did a scene. I guess we both got cast. Very low budget, shot in 18 days. Who knew? I am not rich from the movie. Somebody got rich.

It's who you know and who can help you.

One of the greatest experiences of my career. Peter Jackson is a genius. He makes it look easy and effortless. A visionary. Very collaborative and sharing. No real ego. I remember my [character's] chest is a bunch of scars, and they came to me with their drawings and [Jackson] said, "What do you think?" Which is unheard of in film. It was one of the highlights of my life to work with him.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

You get known for something, and then they pigeonhole you. They don't want to view you as being particularly versatile. They just want you to do that thing you did before. It perpetuates itself. You can certainly say no, but then you're not working. So a long time ago, I just told myself I'd just turn everything, even if it's all stuck in a particular genre, I'd try to expand people's perception of me by what I did within the framework I've got going.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

It's just stories around the campfire.

Happy Birthday Keanu Reeves!

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues. 

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. 

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. 

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. 

Happy Birthday Heidi Kabel!

Leider wissen viele junge Leute gar nicht ihr Glück zu schätzen. Wenn ich an meine Jugend denke, da gab es keine Zuschüsse, kein BAföG, kein Mutterschutzgesetz. Da waren wir froh, wenn wir etwas zu essen hatten und mal ein paar Kohlen klauen konnten.

Nee, ich bin nie auf die Idee gekommen, mich selbst zu verwirklichen. Dazu hatte ich keine Zeit.

Ich habe immer versucht, mit Anstand zu leben, was mir mein Schicksal vorgegeben hat.

Wie die Stücke auf mich zukommen, so kommt auch das Leben. Und wie der Augenblick ist, so handle ich.

Ich habe zeit meines Lebens gearbeitet. Das hält frisch. Das frühe Aufhören, so mit 60 oder 65, ist ein großer Fehler.

Es gibt für mich nichts Schöneres, als mein Publikum zum Lachen, zum Nachdenken und zum Weinen zu bringen.

Die Emanzipation ist erst dann vollendet, wenn auch einmal eine total unfähige Frau in eine verantwortliche Position aufgerückt ist.

Ich bin glücklich über das Prädikat Volksschauspielerin. Die Leute identifizieren sich mit mir und fühlen sich mit mir in den Stücken verbunden.

Flirtende Ehemänner am Strand sind keine Gefahr, denn sie schaffen es nicht lange, den Bauch einzuziehen.

Ich habe immer versucht, mit beiden Beinen auf der Erde zu bleiben, habe nie versucht, mir Wolkenkuckucksheime zu bauen, und ich bin ganz gut damit gefahren.

Ich bin überhaupt nicht aufgeklärt worden. Wie ich mein erstes Kind bekam, mußte ich die Hebamme fragen, wo kommt das nun eigentlich raus?.  

Männer sind zwar oft so jung, wie sie sich fühlen, aber niemals so bedeutend.

Wer nicht genug eigene Sorgen hat, bereichert sich an denen anderer.   

Boulevard ist sehr schwierig. Die meisten verwechseln Heiterkeit mit Oberflächlichkeit.

Happy Birthday Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel!

Der Staat an und für sich ist das sittlichste Ganze, die Verwirklichung der Freiheit; und es ist absoluter Zweck der Vernunft, das die Freiheit wirklich sei.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

Nichts kommt ohne Interesse zustande.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Die Weltgeschichte ist nicht der Boden des Glücks. Die Perioden des Glücks sind leere Blätter in ihr.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Der Staat ist die Wirklichkeit der sittlichen Idee.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Der Widerspruch ist das Erheben der Vernunft über die Beschränkungen des Verstandes.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; ...the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Pferd und Eisen sind die absoluten Organe, wodurch eine gegründete Macht herbeizuführen ist.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Partei ergreifen ist: ein besonderes Interesse haben, eine einseitige Sache vertreten.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Das Schöne ist wesentlich das Geistige, das sich sinnlich äußert, sich im sinnlichen Dasein darstellt. 

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Die christliche Religion ist die Religion der absoluten Freiheit: und nur für den Christen gilt der Mensch als solcher in seiner Unendlichkeit und Allgemeinheit.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Zum Handeln gehört wesentlich Charakter, und ein Mensch von Charakter ist ein anständiger Mensch, der als solcher bestimmte Ziele vor Augen hat und diese mit Festigkeit verfolgt.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Die Definition enthält alles, was zur Wesentlichkeit des Gegenstandes gehört, worin seine Natur auf eine einfache Grundbestimmung zurückgebracht ist als Spiegel für alle Bestimmtheit, die allgemeine Seele alles Besonderen.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Eigensinn ist die Parodie des Charakters.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, daß Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen wären, gehandelt haben. 

...this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.

Im Recht ist der Inhalt die persönliche Freiheit.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Das Reale ist nur eine Identität des Allgemeinen und Besonderen.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

Ich kann mir bei der Musik nichts denken.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Das, was ist zu begreifen, ist die Aufgabe der Philosophie, denn das, was ist, ist die Vernunft.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Der Mensch ist, was er als Mensch sein soll, erst durch Bildung.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Die Art einer Verfassung ist ferner dadurch bestimmt, ob alle Bürger, insofern sie Bürger sind, Anteil an der Regierung haben. Eine solche Verfassung ist die Demokratie.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Der Kampf der Vernunft besteht darin, dasjenige, was der Verstand fixiert hat, zu überwinden.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Der Begriff ist die Wahrheit der Substanz.  

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.  

Insofern die Erfüllung der Pflichten mehr als subjektives Eigentum des Individuums erscheint und mehr seinem natürlichen Charakter angehört, ist sie Tugend.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Love, Fair, Worship All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

Wer etwas Großes will, der muß sich zu beschränken wissen, wer dagegen alles will, der will in der Tat nichts und bringt es zu nichts.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole. 

Die Person muß sich eine äußere Sphäre ihrer Freiheit geben, um als Idee zu sein. 

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Wahrheit ist es, vor der die Meinung erbleicht.

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought. 

Das Mittelmaß bleibt und regiert am Ende der Welt.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Die Jurisprudenz ist das Subsumieren des Besonderen unter das Allgemeine, das Zusammenschließen derselben. 

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Die Wahrheit einer Absicht ist die Tat.  

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Die Kritik, in welchem Teil der Kunst oder Wissenschaft sie ausgeübt werde, fordert einen Maßstab, der von dem Beurteilenden ebenso unabhängig als von dem Beurteilten, nicht von der einzelnen Erscheinung noch der Besonderheit des Subjekts, sondern von dem ewigen und unwandelbaren Urbild der Sache selbst hergenommen sei.

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite.

Die Mutter ist der Genius des Kindes.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

In unsern modernen Staaten ist der Zweikampf kaum für etwas anderes zu erklären als für ein gemachtes Sichzurückversetzen in die Rohheit des Mittelalters.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Das "Du sollst!" setzt ein "Du kannst!" voraus. Der Mensch soll das Sittengesetz erfüllen. Um es aber zu erfüllen, muß er frei sein. Soll es also Sittlichkeit geben, dann muß es Willensfreiheit geben.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. 

Das eigentliche Urteilen über einen Gegenstand ist das Vergleichen seiner Natur oder wahren Allgemeinheit mit seiner Einzelheit oder mit der Beschaffenheit seines Daseins; das Vergleichen dessen, was er ist, mit dem, was er sein soll.   

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

Das Ideal ist das Wirkliche in seiner höchsten Wahrheit. 

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Das Herabsinken der großen Masse unter das Maß einer gewissen Subsistenzweise [Existenzminimum], die sich von selbst als die für ein Mitglied der Gesellschaft notwendige reguliert, - und damit zum Verluste des Gefühls des Rechts, der Rechtlichkeit, der Ehre, durch eigene Tätigkeit und Arbeit zu bestehen, - bringt die Erzeugung des Pöbels hervor, die hinwiederum zugleich die größere Leichtigkeit, unverhältnismäßige Reichtümer in wenige Hände zu konzentrieren, mit sich führt.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.

Was wäre denn sonst der Mühe wert, es zu begreifen, wenn Gott unbegreiflich wäre?

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Die Ungeduld verlangt das Unmögliche, nämlich die Erreichung des Ziels ohne die Mittel.  

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Ist erst das Reich der Vorstellung revolutioniert, so hält die Wirklichkeit nicht Stand. 

Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Das Urteil, das die Schule fällt, kann so wenig etwas Fertiges sein, als der Mensch in ihr fertig ist. 

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

Nationen, die in sich unverträglich sind, gewinnen durch Kriege nach außen Ruhe im Innern. 

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Wo auf der einen Seite der Luxus sich auf seiner Höhe befindet, da ist auch die Not und Verworfenheit auf der anderen Seite ebenso groß, und wird dann als Folge davon der Zynismus durch den Gegensatz der Verfeinerung hervorgerufen.

World history is a court of judgment.

Alle großen weltgeschichtlichen Vorgänge ereignen sich zweimal: Das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce!

Happy #FriendshipDay!

You know, a doctor friend once said the same thing to me. Frankenstein was his name.
Guinan

Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams

I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. But I do not know how to say goodbye.
Data

Because you needed each other. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.
Spock Prime

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of my friend I can only say this: of all the souls that I met on my travels, his was the most… human.
Spock

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them.
Amanda to Spock

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke

I have been — and always shall be — your friend.
Spock

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.
Spock

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns.
Riker, quoting Data

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

Oh, no. No, no. We haven't met before... exactly. She just seemed... a nice, likable girl. I think we could become friends. It's possible.
Captain Kirk

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.
Spock

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Inhabited by humanoids, a very peaceful, friendly people, living on a primitive level. Little of intrinsic value. Approximately class D minus on the Richter scale of cultures.
Spock

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

How did he put it... something like... As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even 'missed' when absent.
Troi [impression of Data]

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll

Never place friendship above profit.
Ferengi-Rules of Acquisition

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King

It's never a good day to lose a friend.
Jadzia Dax

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Take care, Commander. He has friends, and friends of his kind mean power, and power is often dangerous.
Centurion

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated. And even missed when absent.
Data

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

You bleed too much, Crater. You're too pure and noble. Are you saving the last of its kind... or has this become Crater's private heaven here? This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave. It isn't bad to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call. You win all the arguments.
Kirk

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

And you're not like any Starfleet officer I've met before. But that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting friendship.
Guinan

Happy Birthday Ronald D. Moore!

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life. 

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.

I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling.

There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.

I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.