Quotes by german authors

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Good Good And Evil Evil Whatever Beyond Always Occurs Love Always Done

Art is the daughter of freedom. Friedrich Schiller

Art Freedom Daughter

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat Will Become Ought Could Individual He Were Your

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Martin Luther

Prayer Words Better Fewer

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. Adolf Hitler

Struggle Fight World Live Those Want Eternal Them Who Deserve

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein

Religion Humble Mind Superior Frail Our Slight Consists Details Admiration Able Spirit Perceive Feeble Himself Reveals Who

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein

People Few Environment Most Equanimity Opinions Few People Differ Which Forming Social Capable Incapable Prejudices Even Expressing

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

Simple Made Everything Possible Simpler Should

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. Albert Einstein

Eyes People Think Minds See Small Who Number

I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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

You Happy Will Those Destiny One Thing Only Know Sought How Really Your Who Found Serve Among Thing

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope Future Man Enemy Others Claim Abandon High Vitality Inspiration Head Takes Himself Enables His Source Optimism Account Essence Where Hold Present Resigned

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today Tomorrow Finished Never Started

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger

Life Death Myself Anxiety Will Face Free My Life Become Only Take Squarely Acknowledge Then Pettiness

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke

Life Purpose Greater Things Defeated

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. Carl von Clausewitz

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

Love Health Food Entertainment Unhappy Will Men Power Live Satisfied Everything Remain Demon Waits Place Them Necessity Desire

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World Nothing Insignificant Point Point Of View Depends View