Quotes by Berthold Auerbach

Berthold Auerbach

Berthold Auerbach

German-Jewish writer and poet

Lived from: 1812 - 1882

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 28 february 1812 Died: 8 february 1882

  • A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
  • 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.

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  • Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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  • A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
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  • 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.
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  • Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
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  • Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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  • It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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  • Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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  • Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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  • The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
    On the heights
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  • The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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  • To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
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  • To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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  • We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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  • We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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  • 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.
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  • When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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What are the most famous quotes from Berthold Auerbach?

The two most famous quotes from Berthold Auerbach are:

  • "Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations."
  • "A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?"

When did Berthold Auerbach live?

Berthold Auerbach was born in 1812 and died in the year 1882.