Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 47)

"The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life"

Jean Paul, Author

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest"

Jean Paul, Author

"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"

Jean Paul, Author

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers"

Jean Paul, Author

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go"

Jean Paul, Author

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity"

Jean Paul, Author

"Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it"

Jean Paul, Author

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm"

Jean Paul, Author

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger"

Jean Paul, Author

"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall"

Jean Paul, Author

"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease"

Jean Paul, Author

"Your words smell of corpses"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection"

Jean Paul, Author

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying"

Jean Paul, Author

"Live your life and forget your age"

Jean Paul, Author

"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted"

Jean Paul, Author

"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Weaklings must lie"

Jean Paul, Author

"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe"

Jean Paul, Author

"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul"

Jean Paul, Author

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him"

Jean Paul, Author

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations"

Jean Paul, Author

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity"

Jean Paul, Author