Quotes by german authors

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. Friedrich List
Strength Welfare Power Must Restrict General General Welfare Supply Individuals Social Derive Regulate
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. Friedrich List
Relationship Power National Other Reciprocal System Recognize Only Never Develop Between Without Did National System Which Transportation Manufacturing Fullest Now
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. Friedrich List
Love Relationship Fatherland Background Crippled More Like Return Mothers Germany Children Them Plans
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Man Loathing Everywhere Perceived Only Sees He Absurdity Him Existence Now Awfulness Consciousness
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful Truth Man Ugly First Judgment Nothing Add Defined Immediately Degenerate Only Rests Naivete Piece Aesthetic Domain Us Let Us Second
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. Friedrich Nietzsche
Man Creative Cause Every Mobile Movement Happens Original Every Man
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Friedrich Nietzsche
Imperfect Never Tense Becomes Existence Really Present
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion World Enough Destroy Even
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
Good Own Possesses Spirit Only Writer Good Writer Also His Friends
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. Friedrich Nietzsche
Judge Evil Ideal Another Witnessed Becomes Inexorable Were His Whoever Conscience
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life Value Be True Resort Symptoms Consideration Possess Only Never True Come Concerning Stupidities Judgments Against Themselves Last
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Art Nature Reality Imitation Supplement Merely Alongside Metaphysical Placed Thereof Conquest
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. Friedrich Nietzsche
God Man Take Himself Readily Does Reason Why
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience Words Understanding Must Inward Ultimately Same Common Experiences Use Sufficient Guarantee
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Friedrich Nietzsche
Good Man Memory Too Simply Fails Because His Many Original Thinker
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche
History Men Neither See Come Course Nor Iron Necessary Necessity
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom Pride Sense Nothing Our Bit Has-Been Purchased More Dearly Been Than Which Little Little Bit Reason Now
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience Ourselves Must Having Study Come Does Off While Desire
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. Friedrich Nietzsche
War Power Every Too Lies Wounds Spirit Inward Always Been Grand Which Even Grown Profound Receives
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing. Friedrich Nietzsche
Me Song World New Sing Heavens Rejoicing
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride Our Wound Wounded Vanity Been Precisely Just Hardest
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate Value Long Only Attach Equal Greater Still Lesser
The will of man is his happiness. Friedrich Schiller
Happiness Man Will His
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. Friedrich Schiller
Heart Will Noble Always Reason
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. Friedrich Schiller
Man Word Only He Meaning Meaning Of Full Plays
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Friedrich Schiller
Peace Rarely Denied Peaceful
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