Quotes by German Authors - Page 5

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Depression is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.
Max Stirner
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
There are no facts only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
Jean Paul Richter
Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Martin Luther
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
Thomas à Kempis
If we are to pray aright perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer not the poverty of our heart.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Philipp Melanchthon
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
Martin Luther
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions demanded by work become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Martin Luther
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
Martin Luther
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
I praise loudly I blame softly.
Catherine II
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.
Konrad Heiden
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
William J. H. Boetcker
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Shere Hite
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.
Lillian Vernon
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
Anne Frank
If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Goethe
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
Goethe
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
Goethe
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig van Beethoven