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Berthold Auerbach
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“Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who possesses a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Books make men alone for themselves.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only what thou art in thyself determines thy value, not what thou hast.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound?”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) first seen 1068 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dead", no. 1068
“To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) first seen 1071 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dead", no. 1071
“We make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) first seen 1155 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Development", no. 1155
“Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imagination is the mightiest despot.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is all our knowledge? We do not even know what weather it will be to-morrow.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our life is twofold.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best loneliness is when no human eye has rested on our face for a whole day.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed, than to a sack of leaves.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature has no moods. They belong to man alone.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What people will say — in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who is one with himself, is everything.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A mirror is the very foundation of self-consciousness.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love; for, really, attention is fraught with love, and perhaps that which is most unselfish.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forgetting one’s self, or knowing one’s self, around these everything turns.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a childhood of the soul.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vain being is the really solitary being.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not joy nor repose which is the aim of life. It is work, or there is no aim at all.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is the same everywhere.”
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source