Firnis lächelte gütig. "Bücher sind lebendige Wesen", sagte er, "und wenn man ganz in sie eintauc...
CHRISTOPH MARZI Geschichten, das wusste Jude, waren wertvoll, denn sie halfen einem, die Welt zu verstehen. Sie lenk...
CHRISTOPH MARZI Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit bes...
CHRISTOPH MARZI Sie spürte, wie ihr Herz auf Rock 'n' Roll umschaltete.
CHRISTOPH MARZI The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche v...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening tod...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sou...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF We want to play really well against the big teams, but our most important games are against Switzerl...
CHRISTOPH SCHUBERT Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ The relief is huge. There was enormous pressure. The team showed good determination.
CHRISTOPH METZELDER Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ We must take more time for promising young conductors. The famous conductors have no time for teachi...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ We saw a rare opportunity with Irrational Games, a development studio that has consistently produced...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN We ringed some young birds, but none returned home to breed. So what's going on? We hope to uncover ...
CHRISTOPH ZOCKLER It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined str...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF Industrial demand for silver has been lagging significantly since it went over $11.
CHRISTOPH EIBL The irreverent and satirical humor from Family Guy that has made the show a smash hit opens up excit...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN Fundamentally, the market looks strong and there are no signs of a sharp sell-off in the offing. We ...
CHRISTOPH EIBL Urgent international action is required to protect the coastal habitats of these birds.
CHRISTOPH ZOCKLER Civilization IV has been a great success for us. We believe Warlords will exceed the extremely high ...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN This is one of the things you hope for when you run an observatory like Integral.
CHRISTOPH WINKLER Five percent is a very important psychological level. People could start looking to build up longs a...
CHRISTOPH RIEGER It certainly increases the risk that the second shoe is going to drop. This bridge is not going to h...
CHRISTOPH BIANCHET When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ We have very positive sales results at Mercedes-Benz in March. Overall we are above the year-earlier...
CHRISTOPH KOEPKE The fact that this gene is silenced in many cancer types strongly suggests that it plays an importan...
CHRISTOPH PLASS I had a great run today but I was very fortunate not to have injured myself yesterday when I lost th...
CHRISTOPH GRUBER It is the last auction of a royal family in Germany, perhaps even on the continent.
CHRISTOPH DOUGLAS The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-womanlike instrument is really extraordinary, a...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH There is no question that some of the material in the cache is authentic, It seems that the cache is...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF The Darkness videogame is a dynamic first person shooter that allows players to call upon the forces...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN The Darkness videogame is a dynamic first-person shooter that will allow players to call upon the fo...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN The Darkness video game is a dynamic first person shooter that allows players to call upon the force...
CHRISTOPH HARTMANN We've got a lot of supply so that's putting Treasuries onto a bearish footing. People aren't expecti...
CHRISTOPH RIEGER Bangladesh is highly significant as a wintering area for the spoon-billed sandpipers. But we are ver...
CHRISTOPH ZOCKLER The appointment of this young woman will mean the rejuvenation of the Orchestra in the best way. The...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH We see no cause for panic or hysteria.
CHRISTOPH BERGNER We are pursuing a dual strategy in China. First, we have outstanding W-CDMA know-how and the sales s...
CHRISTOPH CASELITZ You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological ...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ We can deliver the infrastructure as soon as the Chinese government has awarded the licenses to carr...
CHRISTOPH CASELITZ Sugar prices in the past few months have pulled back because of the weaker oil price. Now that oil i...
CHRISTOPH EIBL My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about i...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ What's wrong with that guy? It has nothing to do with sport, I guess. I think it's just stupid. Ther...
CHRISTOPH SCHUBERT A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
CHRISTOPH WILHELM HUFELAND With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influ...
RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea...
RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read th...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora...
CHRISTOPH CELLARIUS (KELLER) What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mou...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - no...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar...
RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been pre...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG As nations improve, so do their gods
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Those who never have time do least
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Jedermann sollte wenigstens soviel Philosophie und schöne Wissenschaften studieren, als nötig ist,...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of th...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally ch...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in ou...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG In his Comedy, Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to beco...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do no...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be c...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribut...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Some people read because they are too lazy to think.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhapp...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai �...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. ...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Go...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Deaf rage that hears no leader. [Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kan...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. [Ger., Im engen Krei...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are one people and will act as one. [Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the p...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfe...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday pen...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG In each of us there is a little of all of us.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG