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1187 German Quotes

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Unhappiness World Small Men
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We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We Once Alone See
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

Strange Complicated Avoid Feel
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Forget Secret Youth Memory
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty Reward Life Exploited
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

Courage Fairest Adornment Youth
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Melancholy Secret Reality Desires
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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Never Complicated Serve Living
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No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Soldier Chances Trusts Luck
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little

Kiss Life Precious Little
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Everyone Saves Kills Someone
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Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Our Knowledge Life Death
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
Anything Settle Money Cheap
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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

Good Ill Life Risk
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Nothing Mirror See World
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I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.

Thought Everyone Against War
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Serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

Serenity Calm Tolerance
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Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Agressor Peace World Races
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Love should not be polluted with friendship

Love Polluted Friendship
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Comfort Skin Someone Love
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Aim Music God Soul
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Play Notes God Music
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It is the special province of music to move the heart.
Special Music Move Heart
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Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Love Blind Marriage Fail
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Devotional Music God Presence
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Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Music Purpose God Human spirit
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Music Harmony God Soul
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Obliged Industrious Succeed Equally
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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Achieved Practice Gift Ability
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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

God's Gift Worthy Destiny
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Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Work Reflection Writing Secret
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It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Pleasure Music Ease Grace
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Craftsmanship Inspiration Wind
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In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.

Study Inspired Ideas God
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If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Write Beauty Purity
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The only true immortality lies in one's children.

True Immortality Lies Children
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Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Miracles Work Artist Force
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Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

Ideas Flow Directly God
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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Historical Biography Peoples' Feelings
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Truth Time Feel Shame
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I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Believe Service Christ Solace
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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Theology Authority Philosophy Reason
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Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Proper Experiments Conclude
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

Wait Reader God Observer
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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

Planets Ellipses Sun Focus
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Eyesight should learn from reason.

Eyesight Learn Reason
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The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Earth Inhabited Borne Stars
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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nature Uses Possible Anything
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The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Creator Wisdom Order Harmonics
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Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

Qualities Quantities
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