Quotes by german authors

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse

Wisdom Knowledge Communicate Live Find Through Wonders Cannot Fortified Teach

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse

Character Courage People Rest Seem Always Sinister

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. Johann Most

Property Result Transformation Society Anarchist Only Because Improvement Establishment Want Commonwealth Convinced Communists Socialists

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art Needs Religion Science Possess Possesses He Does Them Who

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Myself Run Would Knew Thyself Know Know Thyself Away

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx

Gone Mad Rational Miser Merely While Capitalist

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx

Art Time Confession Secret Everywhere Immortal Always Same Same Time Movement

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx

Men State Direct Ideas Most Material

Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality. Klaus Schwab

Dignity Equality Responsibility Moral Responsibility Employees Corporate Address Corporations Further Moral Shareholders Environment Terms Issues Conditions Reflecting Improving Goes Social Ethical Communities Measured Businesses Social Responsibility Inclusion Fundamental Need

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther

Alone History Blood Wheels Moves

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy. Max Born

Physics Philosophy Am Convinced Theoretical Now Actually

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. Max Planck

Ego Immediate Dictate Human Human Consciousness Consciousness

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. Meister Eckhart

God Empty Full Things

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God. Meister Eckhart

God Word Every Creature

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

Faith Knowledge Half Other One Half Only

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Otto von Bismarck

Try Half Gentleman Fraud Always Am

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. Paul Tillich

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Paul Tillich

God Courage Anxiety Doubt Disappeared Rooted Who Appears