Quotes by German Authors - Page 2

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom is only found in trudi.
Goethe
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Goethe
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Martin Luther
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
Otto von Bismarck
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Otto von Bismarck
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.
Thomas à Kempis
The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.
Beethoven
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
Goethe
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Peace if possible but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
Paul Tillich
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
G. C. Lichtenberg
When praying does no good insurance does help.
Bertolt Brecht
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
Christian Morgenstern
It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.
Kurt Lewin
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
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
Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
Edith Hamilton
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fisher
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
Albert Schweitzer
Let us live today.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King
Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Albert Einstein
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Martin H. Fischer
The finer impulse of our nature.
Friedrich von Schiller
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.
Thomas à Kempis