"Ernst Fischer" may refer to:

* Ernst Fischer (composer) (1900–1975), German composer and keyboard player

* Ernst Fischer (writer) (1899–1972), Austrian journalist, writer and politician

* Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, Nobel prize winner

* Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist developer of stoichiometry theory together with Jeremias Richter

* Kuno Fischer (Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer, 1824–1907), German philosopher

* Ernst Sigismund Fischer (1875–1954), Austrian mathematician

* Ernst Peter Fischer (born 1947), German historian of science, and science publicist

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus...