The starry sky above your head and the moral laws in your heart.

Harmony 2022-01-25 08:03:32

Human beings live by following their inner conscience.
I don't believe that, as the curator of the German Prison Museum said, there are no secret police officers who are truly "discovered by conscience" in reality.
I always believe that life is continued by the greatest power. As Kant said, the "starry sky above the head and the moral laws in the heart", they are the existence of beauty and infinite eternity.

At the end of this movie, my eyes were already in tears.

music. Poetry and drama, their power is so great and sacred. And what is contained in it is the immortal pursuit and perseverance of human beings for truth and love.
I am not an idealist, I just wish I could become it.
It is a pity that, like most people in the world, I can't do it completely either. It's just that if you can get your heart out, it won't be a trip to the world in vain. After all, this world is not as bad as we think.

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  • Aurore 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    I was surprised that this film could be watched, and then sorrowed at my surprise.

  • Antonette 2022-03-21 09:01:19

    "Sonata for good people." People have to find a way to perfect themselves.

The Lives of Others quotes

  • Georg Dreyman: The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3, how many books I read a year: 3.2 and how many students graduate with perfect marks: 6,347. But there's one statistic that isn't collected there, perhaps because such numbers cause even paper-pushers pain: and that is the suicide rate.

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: No?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.