Quotes by German Authors - Page 6

The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugene Herrigel
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I
Anne Frank
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Rolf Hochhuth
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
Wilhelm Busch
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas à Kempis
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.
Johann L. von Mosheim
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.
Henry Kissinger
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time itself is an element.
Johann von Goethe
Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.
Moses Mendelssohn
Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Sweets are good for the nerves.
Margarete Bieber
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann von Goethe
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.
Theodore Fontane
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
Martin Luther
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
The unnatural - that too is natural.
Goethe
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Beethoven
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Goethe
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.
Heinrich Heine
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Andre Previn
The devil does not stay where music is.
Martin Luther
Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
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