Quotes by german authors

Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner
Reality Imagination Creates
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson
First To Be Honest Difficult Our Our Lives Ourselves Risk Only Take Most Improve Lives Chance Chances Honest
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. Werner Herzog
Darkness Ocean Chaos Civilization Layer Like Ice Deep Thin
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. Adolf Hitler
Cause Own Doubting Other Side Admitted Propaganda Soon Glimpse Laid Even Right
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. Adolf Hitler
War Think Generals Knights Like Waged Revolutionaries Middle Middle Ages Ages Should Use Need
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels
Government Great Think Keyboard Press Which Play
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe? Adam Weishaupt
You Man Made Believe Mortal Oh Anything Cannot
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. Albert Einstein
War Future People Will Believe Earth Out Atomic Atomic Bomb Civilization Wiped Perhaps Fought Bomb Two-Thirds
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein
Man Fate Must Never Never Forget Concern Equations Always Diagram His Chief Endeavors Forget Form Interest Midst Your Technical
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein
God Reflection Creation Imagination Frailty Objects His Human Rewards Cannot Who Imagine
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Albert Einstein
Science Wonderful Living Earn Does Wonderful Thing Thing
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. Albert Schweitzer
Life Me Experience My Life Ocean Live Wave Must Never Part Around Always Surface Exist Itself Going Just Cannot Which Ever
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer
Man Thought Something Mysterious Take Soon Does His Existence Begins Granted
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer
Life Live Others Also Becomes Happier Us Richer Harder
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Albert Schweitzer
Nature Man Will Lost Earth Destroying He Foresee End Capacity
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. Albert Schweitzer
Life Good Spiritual World Become Relation Alive Enter Having Practicing Reverence Deep
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. Albert Schweitzer
Life Good Me You Ethics Further Definition Destroy Bad Give Maintain Damage
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer
Faith Man Problems Will Responsibility Must Morals Environment Learn Exercise His Cease Personal Personal Responsibility Again Realm
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual You Back Those Impart Something Road Accept Precious Being Them Much Your Who
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Albrecht Durer
Beauty Though Know Many Things
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. Albrecht Durer
Man Beauty Single Earth Perfect Taken Single Man Model Man Lives Endowed Figure Who Whole Lives
My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now. Angelique Kerber
Me Big Him Without Am Big Influence Influence Where Grandfather Now
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? Anne Frank
Soul Girl Young Think Would Young Girl Much Who Ever
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer
Great Honesty People Hypocrisy Possess Those Ability Merely Talent Great Talent Limited Modesty Who
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man Become Way Ability Only Martyrdom Without Famous
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoughts People Money Win Try Another Because Deal Idiots Cards
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