Quotes by German Authors - Page 15

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Hermann Hesse
Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.
Jacob Bobart
A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Friedrich von Schiller
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Max Reger
The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
Geoffrey Hartman
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
Karl Marx
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Jean Paul Richter
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Johann von Goethe
Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
J. C. F. von Schiller
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God helps the brave.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.
Martin Luther
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
Johann von Goethe
I like to laugh but on the court it is my work. I try to smile but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball not on my face.
Steffi Graf
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Mary Henle
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther
God will forgive me. That's his business.
Heinrich Heine
All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
Thomas à Kempis
Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.
Goethe
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.
Goethe
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik Erikson
That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.
Ulrich von Hutton
Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis
Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Johann von Goethe