Berthold Auerbach famous quotes

Years teach us more than books.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Inspirational #Book #Years

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Artist #Littles #Germs

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Money #Art #Valor

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Fear #Justice #Strive

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Self Improvement #Progress #Trouble

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Acceptance #Self #Affliction

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Lying #People #Mind

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Gratitude #Joy #Soil

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Mean #Gay #Expression

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Feet #Mountain #Disaster

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Belief #Firm

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Rain #Fall #Grief

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Hands #World #Hats

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Character #Stains

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Men #Corruption #Ends

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Mother #Good Mother #Habit

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Weather #Important

The world is the same everywhere.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Work #World

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Anger #Men #Oil

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Men #Age #Silver

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Knowledge #Weather #Tomorrow

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Liberty #Devil

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Eye #Maturity #Long

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Hatred #Soul #Harbors

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Bed #Easier

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Men #Window #Modern

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Abstract #Creeds #Institutions

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Eye #Lightning #Looks

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Nature #Bird #Swamps

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Work #Command

The vain being is the really solitary being.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Vanity #Vain #Solitary

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Dust #Practice #Soul

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Needs

Imagination is the mightiest despot.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Imagination

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Truth #Purity #Falsehood

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Selfish #Men #Vanity

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Healing #Solitude #Companion