Quotes by german authors

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche

Pay Several Alive Immortality Still Dearly Times Die While

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. Friedrich Nietzsche

Immorality Morality Step Also End Ashamed Staircase Whose

In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche

Music Enjoy Passions Themselves

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. Friedrich Nietzsche

Future Obligation Problem Value Values Philosopher Hierarchy Solve Determine True Sciences Task Which Ground Prepare Now

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil Men Russians Songs How

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Quality Strong Possess Striving Admiration Us

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche

World Ugly Made Christian Bad Find Resolution

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. Friedrich Nietzsche

Exalted He Wishes Himself

Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller

Genius Intelligence Every True Bound Naive True Genius

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sickness Greatest Mankind Defect

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz

Music Mind Pleasure Counting Without Human Being Experiences Human Mind Aware

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Hannah Arendt

Reality World Ideology Third Third World

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back. Heidi Klum

Smile You Believe Back Out Put Get

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant

World Law Made Action Principle Safely Might Act Your Whole

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant

Happiness God Be Happy Happy Will Ourselves Merely Make Should

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant

Man Made Nothing Out Carved Crooked Entirely Timber Which Straight

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice. Johann Most

Corruption Stupidity Will See Powered Looks Ship America Prejudice Whoever

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. Johann Most

Property Society Anarchist Seeks He Sharing Himself Calls Conditions Revolutionary Whether Social Social Conditions Communist Who Based Present

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. Johann Sebastian Bach

Idiot Own My Own Accord Decide Then