Quotes by German Authors - Page 10

A useless life is an early death.
Goethe
Christian life consists in faith and charity.
Martin Luther
His saying was: live and let live.
Friedrich von Schiller
It is love not reason that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Love feels no burden regards not labors strives toward more than it attains argues not of impossibility since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas à Kempis
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
Albert Schweitzer
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Goethe
The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.
Paul Tillich
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann Hesse
I am the King of Rome and above grammar.
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
Martin H. Fisher
One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
Goethe
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Friedrich von Schiller
Without love benevolence becomes egotism.
Martin Luther King
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
Erich Fromm
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
Thomas à Kempis
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.
Henry Kissinger
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I follow my heart for I can trust it.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
Christoph Martin-Wieland
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann von Goethe
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
Goethe
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Goethe
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
Konrad Adenauer
And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
Goethe
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.
Hannah Arendt
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
Otto von Bismarck
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Christian Morgenstern
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
Goethe
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Goethe
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
Albert Schweitzer