Quotes by German Authors - Page 103

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Markus Herz
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Albert Einstein
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
Karl Lagerfeld
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Anne Frank
Convictions are prisons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.
Thomas à Kempis
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
Charles Bukowski
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Karl Lagerfeld
Man made God in his own image...
Eckhart Tolle
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Werner Herzog
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
Anne Frank
To save all we must risk all.
Friedrich Schiller
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Albert Einstein
Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.
Kerstin Gier
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Albert Einstein
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Meister Eckhart
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
Anne Frank
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?
Anne Frank
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
Albert Einstein
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
Arthur Schopenhauer
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
Hugo Hamilton
be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you
Charles Bukowski
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
Albert Einstein
The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.
Charles Bukowski
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Karl Marx
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Eckhart Tolle
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann Hesse
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
Anne Frank
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
Charles Bukowski
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Martin Luther
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Anne Frank
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Albert Einstein