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Quotes by German Authors
"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
"You never fail until you stop trying."
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
"Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes."
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system."
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
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