Adelbert von Chamisso quote: "The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter."

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stag...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

In pain is a new time born.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unhee...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detai...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey clo...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on land...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch l�...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER

I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the...
VON MILLER

It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate ...
VON HARDESTY

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probab...
THEO VON

What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range ...
VON HARDESTY

He was throwing free and easy, he wasn't struggling with getting his velocity up and basically pitch...
VON HAYES

Their pitchers made an adjustment and our hitters didn't. The name of this game is to adjust when th...
VON HAYES

Before that, plastic was a synonym of bad products. From the Middle Ages on, dolls were given infant...
CRISTIANE VON

We didn't drive in a run. One was a balk and the other was an error. We missed so many opportunities...
VON HAYES

Out of high school, I was, like, 202-205 pounds. My rookie season, I was, like, 245; my second year,...
VON MILLER

The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little...
THEO VON

I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers.
VON MILLER

They were found in tombs, beside children. Due to the custom of keeping objects with the dead, Egypt...
CRISTIANE VON

I really don't look at myself as a defensive end or a linebacker or a cornerback or a safety. I ...
VON MILLER

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.
A.R. VON

As I recall, Gregg didn't have everyone. We got them at a good time. Besides, sum- mer time is summe...
VON GRAFFIN

We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they...
VON GRAFFIN

It's a phenomenal feat of human engineering.
VON HARDESTY

What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range ...
VON HARDESTY

If the government were serious to begin with, we could have avoided a repeat of this type of disaste...
VON HERNANDEZ

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got marr...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My f...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF

It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that wil...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and i...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about b...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
ROGER VON OECH

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
MAX VON SYDOW

Politics is the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCK

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your...
LARS VON TRIER

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots...
LARS VON TRIER

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You ...
LARS VON TRIER

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour...
LARS VON TRIER

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my ...
LARS VON TRIER

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join ...
LARS VON TRIER

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
LARS VON TRIER

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would ...
LARS VON TRIER

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
LARS VON TRIER

I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm su...
LARS VON TRIER

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinkin...
LARS VON TRIER

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my li...
LARS VON TRIER

I always do something that I've never done before.
LARS VON TRIER

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth arou...
LARS VON TRIER

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
LARS VON TRIER

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made wi...
LARS VON TRIER

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
LARS VON TRIER

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself...
LARS VON TRIER

My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav...
LARS VON TRIER

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
LARS VON TRIER

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misus...
LARS VON TRIER

I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea...
LARS VON TRIER

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER

Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
ROGER VON OECH

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES

He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
KAJETAN VON SCHLAGGENBERG

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

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Adelbert von Chamisso

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

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