Quotes by German authors

"Hate is more lasting than dislike"

"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been"

"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet"

"The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy"

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own"

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"

"Years teach us more than books"

"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong"

"Words build bridges into unexplored regions"

"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice"

"Great liars are also great magicians"

"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy"

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always"

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing"

"Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan"

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed"

"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"

"Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all"

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator"

"It is not truth that matters, but victory"

"I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened"

"I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them"

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates"

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason"

"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present"

"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil"

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef"

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom"

"I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family"