Quotes by German Authors - Page 12

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Johann von Goethe
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich von Schiller
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
Thomas Mann
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Max Stirner
If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich von Schiller
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
Edith Hamilton
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Erich Fromm
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent from which all truth proceeds without which there is no truth?
Friedrich Jacobi
You are accepted! ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
Paul Tillich
God is clever but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin Luther
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not nor may strong helpers anything avail nor wise counselors give profitable counsel nor the cunning of doctors give consolation nor riches deliver in time of need nor a secret place to defend if Thou Lord do not assist help comfort counsel inform and defend.
Thomas à Kempis
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world that He sent His Son for its salvation the Prince and Savior of the faithful who washed and dried our wounds and from Him also came that most sweet medicine from which all the good things of salvation flow.
Hildegard of Bingen
The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists and it certainly always will I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
Thomas à Kempis
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
Meister Eckhart
A comprehended God is no God at all.
Gerhard Tersteegen
God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul Richter
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
Man proposes God disposes.
Thomas à Kempis
The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself.
Karl Marx
Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience He stands waiting with exactness grinds he all.
Friedrich von Logau
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense to be emotionally sincere to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings one's work one's beliefs.
Karen Horney
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann von Goethe
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?
J. C. F. von Schiller
Let us live while we are alive!
Johann von Goethe
One of the most important factors not only in military matters but in life as a whole is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.
Erich Kästner
The purpose of life is life.
Karl Lagerfeld
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
George Hegel
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Goethe
A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
Martin Luther