Quotes by German Authors - Page 13

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A God-intoxicated man.
Novalis
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
Thomas à Kempis
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Goethe
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Johann von Goethe
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann von Goethe
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Johann von Goethe
We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.
Oswald Spengler
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!
Anne Frank
Something must happen!
Heinrich Böll
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.
Erik Erikson
Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.
Goethe
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
The present is great with the future
Baron von Leibnitz
I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself and he exists only in your head whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own and moves according to laws of his own which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann von Goethe
The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann von Goethe
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is lasting love there is a family.
Shere Hite
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Goethe
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
Peter von Winter
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich
Too much is unwholesome.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.
Arthur Schopenhauer
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
God will forgive me that is His business.
Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!
Heinrich Heine
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Hate is not a good counselor.
Victoria Wolff
Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas à Kempis
Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.
Thomas à Kempis
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Goethe
Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.
Jean Paul Richter
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer