Quotes by German Authors - Page 16

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann von Goethe
Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.
Karl Marx
The nature of business is swindling.
August Bebel
God helps the brave.
Friedrich von Schiller
The fewer the words the better prayer.
Martin Luther
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.
Theodore Haecker
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Erich Fromm
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann von Goethe
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Jean Paul Richter
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Goethe
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
Goethe
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein
Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.
Goethe
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter
Art is difficult transient is her reward.
Friedrich von Schiller
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.
Paul Klee
The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee
Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
In a true tragedy both parties must be right.
Georg W. F. Hegel
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Walter Gropius
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Goethe
Architecture is frozen music.
Goethe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Mies Van Der Rohe
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Walter Gropius
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Mies Van Der Rohe
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Jean Paul
In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
When words leave off music begins.
Heinrich Heine
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
Goethe
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson
Fear of death is worse than dying.
J. C. F. von Schiller
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann von Goethe
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Martin Luther
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
Goethe
I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
Goethe
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King