Quotes by German Authors - Page 9

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
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
I praise loudly I blame softly.
Catherine II
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Martin Luther
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
Johann von Goethe
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
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer
Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Schopenhauer
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Goethe
I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
Goethe
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul Richter
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
Thomas Mann
If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Goethe
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fisher
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck
Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!
Goethe
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Hannah Arendt
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
Magnus Hirschfeld
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer
For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
Joy is not in things it is in us.
Richard Wagner
One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer