Quotes by German Authors - Page 7

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
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.
Konrad Heiden
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
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