Quotes by German Authors - Page 11

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
Johann von Goethe
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun
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.
Hermann Hesse
Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Büchner
People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
Friedrich Hölderlin
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
Henry Kissinger
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces the chief points in the process of history.
Edward Bernstein
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Friedrich von Schlegel
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Goethe
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Friedrich von Schiller
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Goethe
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King
When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
Johann von Goethe
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J. H. Boetcker
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothy Solle
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann von Goethe
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Erich Fromm
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.
Johann von Goethe
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann von Goethe
The will of man is his happiness.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.
Shere Hite
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.
Catherine the Great
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
J. C. F. von Schiller