Learning and seeing are more important than education.

— Sten Nadolny

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

— Sten Nadolny

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

— Sten Nadolny

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

— Sten Nadolny