Quotes by German Authors - Page 4

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
J. C. F. von Schiller
I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich von Schiller
I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.
Paul Wunderlich
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe
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
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. Lichtenberg
What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.
Thomas Mann
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.
Goethe
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
Albert Einstein
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
Albert Einstein
Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Goethe
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
The king reigns but does not govern.
Otto von Bismarck
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann von Goethe
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite!
Karl Marx
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
Martin Luther King
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.
Martin Luther
Repentance is for little children.
Adolf Eichmann
God will pardon me. It's his business.
Heinrich Heine
Religion is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
Religion is the opiate of the people.
Karl Marx
Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Heinrich Heine
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
Martin Luther
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.
Thomas Mann
Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm