Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 3)

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"I call architecture frozen music"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid"

Martin Luther, Professor

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf"

Martin Luther, Professor

"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view"

Max Planck, Scientist

"There is no love which does not become help"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"We have art in order not to die of the truth"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The lie is a condition of life"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal