Ludwig Hohl Quotes

Ludwig Hohl was a Swiss author writing in the German language. Outside of literary mainstream, he spent most of his life in extreme poverty. He is still unknown to a wider public but has been praised by several well-known authors for his writing and his radical thinking about life and literature. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. April 1904 – 3. November 1980
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Famous Ludwig Hohl Quotes

“Work is motion, but our own. We have the fatal possibility to emulate another, for example a millwheel.”

Ludwig Hohl

Arbeit ist Bewegung, aber das unsrige.
Wir haben die verhängnisvolle Fähigkeit, andere nachahmen zu können, z. B. ein Mühlrad.
Die Notizen, I, 3

“Class consciousness — yes, the theory is all too true. But there is a third class, that of Socrates, that of the inexorable.”

Ludwig Hohl

Klassenbewusstsein, ja, die Theorie ist nur allzu richtig. Aber es gibt noch eine dritte Klasse, die des Sokrates, die der Unversöhnlichen.
Ludwig Hohl, Die Notizen (1981), II, 66, S. 70

“Today’s laziness consists in lifeless motion.”

Ludwig Hohl

Die wahre heutige Faulheit besteht in einer toten Bewegung.
Die Notizen (1981), I, 3

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