Günther Anders Quotes

German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)

Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern; Breslau, 12 July 1902 – Vienna, 17 December 1992) was a German philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet.

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Pen Names: Günther Christian • Reinhold Hoffmann

Alternative Names: Günther Stern • Günther Siegmund Stern

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The power of an ideology is not only measured by the answers it can provide but by the questions that it is able to suppress.

Human beings are ashamed to have been born rather than made. They are ashamed of the fact that, unlike flawless and wholly calculated products, they owe their existence to the blind, incalculable and decidedly archaic process of procreation and birth.

Die Macht einer Weltanschauung bewährt sich ja nicht durch die Antworten, die sie zu geben weiß, sondern durch die Fragen, die sie abzudrosseln versteht.