Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 35)

"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Where children are, there is the golden age"

Novalis, Poet

"We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend"

Novalis, Poet

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming"

Novalis, Poet

"We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible"

Novalis, Poet

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it"

Novalis, Poet

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist"

Novalis, Poet

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason"

Novalis, Poet

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home"

Novalis, Poet

"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general"

Novalis, Poet

"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life"

Novalis, Poet

"Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity"

Novalis, Poet

"Nature is a petrified magic city"

Novalis, Poet

"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment"

Novalis, Poet

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other"

Novalis, Poet

"I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception"

Novalis, Poet

"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise"

Novalis, Poet

"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men"

Novalis, Poet

"Character and fate are two words for the same thing"

Novalis, Poet

"A character is a completely fashioned will"

Novalis, Poet

"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Everyone needs help from everyone"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Don't tell me peace has broken out"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

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