Quotes by German Authors - Page 14

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy it is directed toward both.
Martin Luther King
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Martin Luther King
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
Paul Tillich
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Martin Luther
Faith is hidden household capital.
Johann von Goethe
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.
Heinrich Heine
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
Marlene Dietrich
No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
Elsa Einstein
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
Leo Baeck
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
J. C. F. von Schiller
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Rosa Luxemburg
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Johann von Goethe
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
Claudia Schiffer
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann von Goethe
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Man errs as long as he struggles.
Johann von Goethe
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.
Karen Horney
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
George Hegel
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
Christian Morgenstern
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.
Goethe
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
Jean Paul Richter
Not only England but every Englishman is an island.
Novalis
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
Nothing is more to me than myself.
Max Stirner
The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
Heinrich Heine
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
G. C. Lichtenberg
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Thomas à Kempis
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!
Martin Luther
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.
Friedrich von Schiller
Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
Goethe
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Günter Grass
Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton