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Stephen Hawking Foto

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.”
Millionen von Jahren lebte die Menschheit genau wie die Tiere. Dann geschah etwas, das die Kraft unserer Vorstellungskraft freisetzte. Wir haben sprechen gelernt und wir haben zugehört.

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Kontext: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Jean Jacques Rousseau Foto

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
Ich bevorzuge Freiheit mit Gefahr als Frieden mit Sklaverei.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Blaise Pascal Foto
Joseph Campbell Foto

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Folge deinem Glück und das Universum wird dir Türen öffnen, wo vorher nur Mauern waren.

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Variante: Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Quelle: The Power of Myth

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
Teilt unsere Ähnlichkeiten, feiert unsere Unterschiede.

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Pablo Picasso Foto

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Ich tue immer das, was ich nicht kann, damit ich lernen kann, wie man es macht.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Attributed in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 132, and many places on the internet, this was actually stated by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon_van_Rappard (18 August 1885) http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let528/letter.html, also rendered "I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."
Misattributed
Variante: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Vladimir Lenin Foto

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.”
Die Freiheit der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft bleibt immer ungefähr die gleiche, die sie in den antiken griechischen Republiken war: Freiheit für die Sklavenhalter.

Vladimir Lenin buch The State and Revolution

Quelle: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5.

Mark Twain Foto

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Wann immer Sie feststellen, dass Sie auf der Seite der Mehrheit stehen, ist es Zeit für eine Reform.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Quelle: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Gehe nicht, wohin der Weg führen mag, sondern dorthin, wo kein Weg ist, und hinterlasse eine Spur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Oscar Wilde Foto

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Man sollte immer verliebt sein. Deshalb sollte man niemals heiraten.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Vincent Van Gogh Foto

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
Sei dir der Sterne und der Unendlichkeit in der Höhe klar bewusst. Dann scheint das Leben doch fast verzaubert zu sein.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Jack London Foto

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
Die Wildnis verweilte immer noch in ihm und der Wolf in ihm schlief nur.

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

Quelle: White Fang

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
Ich lache, weil ich nicht weinen darf, das ist alles, das ist alles.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Versuche niemals, einem Schwein das Singen beizubringen, du verschwendest deine Zeit und belästigst das Schwein.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Quelle: Time Enough for Love

Theodore Roosevelt Foto

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Lasse deine Augen auf die Sterne gerichtet und deine Füße auf dem Boden.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Variante: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
Quelle: The Greatest American President: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Telegram, turning down a party invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (13 June 1962)

Henry Ford Foto

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Wenn du immer das tust, was du immer getan hast, wirst du immer das bekommen, was du immer hast.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Sylvia Plath Foto

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Journal entry from July 1950 &ndash; 1953, page 63 of the original, page 55 of the collection
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Thomas Hobbes Foto

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

Thomas Hobbes buch Leviathan

Quelle: Leviathan

Jim Morrison Foto

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
Ich mag Leute, die andere Leute aufrütteln und es ihnen unbequem machen.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Quelle: Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

Alvin Toffler Foto
Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

Eckhart Tolle Foto

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
Sie können nur das verlieren, was Sie haben, aber Sie können nicht verlieren, was Sie sind.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Quelle: A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

Muhammad Ali Foto

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Freundschaft ist das Schwierigste auf der Welt zu erklären. Das lernt man nicht in der Schule. Aber wenn Sie die Bedeutung von Freundschaft nicht gelernt haben, haben Sie wirklich nichts gelernt.

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
James Baldwin Foto

“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
Nichts stärkt Autorität so sehr wie Schweigen.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Jack Kornfield Foto

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
Das Problem ist, dass du denkst, du hättest Zeit.

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Quelle: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Jonathan Safran Foer Foto
George Washington Foto

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
Wenn uns die Redefreiheit genommen wird, dann können wir stumm und still wie Schafe zum Schlachten geführt werden.

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Arthur Schopenhauer Foto

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust über den Wert der Dinge.

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust über den Wert der Dinge.
Quelle: Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

C.G. Jung Foto

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Das Privileg Ihres Lebens ist es, zu werden, wer Sie wirklich sind.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Albert Einstein Foto
Terry Pratchett Foto

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
Wirkliche Dummheit schlägt jedes Mal künstliche Intelligenz.

Terry Pratchett buch Hogfather

Quelle: Hogfather

Ray Bradbury Foto

“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
Ohne die Bibliothek gibt es keine Zivilisation.

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
William Shakespeare Foto

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
Liebte mein Herz bis jetzt? Vergiss es, Anblick! Denn ich habe bis heute Nacht nie wahre Schönheit gesehen.

William Shakespeare buch Romeo und Julia

Quelle: Romeo and Juliet

Henry James Foto

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
Drei Dinge im menschlichen Leben sind wichtig. Das Erste, freundlich zu sein. Das Zweite, freundlich zu sein. Und das Dritte, freundlich zu sein.

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).

Oscar Wilde Foto

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
Es gibt Momente, in denen man sich entscheiden muss, ob man sein eigenes Leben führen will, ganz oder gar, oder ob man eine falsche, flache, erniedrigende Existenz herausholt, die die Welt in ihrer Heuchelei fordert.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer

Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan

Mark Twain Foto

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Ein Bankier ist ein Mensch, der seinen Schirm verleiht, wenn die Sonne scheint, und ihn sofort zurückhaben will, wenn es zu regnen beginnt.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed

Victor Hugo Foto

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
Ihr, die ihr leidet, weil ihr liebt, liebt nur noch mehr! An Liebe sterben ist Leben!

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

Paulo Coelho Foto

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Du bist das, was du selbst zu sein glaubst.

Paulo Coelho buch The Witch of Portobello

Quelle: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Kontext: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.

Thomas à Kempis Foto

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Thomas à Kempis buch Nachfolge Christi

Book I, ch. 16.
Quelle: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)

Alexandre Dumas Foto

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

Alexandre Dumas buch Der Graf von Monte Christo

Quelle: The Count of Monte Cristo

Brandon Sanderson Foto
George Carlin Foto

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
Die Raupe macht die ganze Arbeit, aber der Schmetterling bekommt die ganze Aufmerksamkeit.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Stephen King Foto

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
Der gruseligste Moment ist immer kurz bevor Sie anfangen.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variante: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Quelle: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Kabir Foto
Pablo Picasso Foto

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
Als ich ein Kind war, sagte meine Mutter zu mir:‚ Wenn Sie Soldat werden, werden Sie General. Wenn du ein Mönch wirst, wirst du der Papst sein. ‚ Stattdessen wurde ich Maler und endete als Picasso.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

As quoted in Life with Picasso, by François Gilot, 1964, p. 60
1940s

Ray Bradbury Foto

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”
Lebe so, als würdest du in zehn Sekunden tot umfallen.

Ray Bradbury buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

William Shakespeare Foto

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Quelle: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anne Frank Foto

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Wie wunderbar ist es, dass niemand einen Moment warten muss, bevor er anfängt, die Welt zu verbessern.

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Quelle: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

Khaled Hosseini Foto
Jane Austen Foto

“Angry people are not always wise.”
Wütende Menschen sind nicht immer weise.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Der beste Weg, die Zukunft vorherzusagen, ist, sie zu erschaffen

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Jim Morrison Foto

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
Die Zukunft ist ungewiss, aber das Ende ist immer nahe.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
Was könnten wir erreichen, wenn wir wüssten, dass wir nicht scheitern könnten?

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Steinbeck Foto

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
Nicht die Macht verdirbt, sondern die Angst. Die Angst vor Machtverlust verdirbt diejenigen, die sie innehaben. Und die Angst vor der Geißel der Macht korrumpiert diejenigen, die von ihr beherrscht werden.

John Steinbeck buch The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

Ossie Davis Foto
Fernando Pessoa Foto

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
Meine Seele ist ein verborgenes Orchester; Ich weiß nicht, welche Instrumente, welche Streicher und Harfen, Trommeln und Tamboura ich in mir klinge und zusammenschlage. Ich höre nur die Symphonie.

Fernando Pessoa buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares

Quelle: The Book of Disquiet

C.G. Jung Foto

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Alles, was uns an anderen irritiert, kann uns zu einem tieferen Verständnis von uns selbst führen.

C.G. Jung buch Memories, Dreams, Reflections

ii. America: The Pueblo Indians http://books.google.com/books?id=w6vUgN16x6EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jung+Memories+Dreams+and+Reflections&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LLxKUcD0NfSo4APh0oDABg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (Extract from an unpublished ms) (Random House Digital, 2011).
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
Kontext: We always require an outside point to stand on, in order to apply the lever of criticism. This is especially so in psychology, where by the nature of the material we are much more subjectively involved than in any other science. How, for example, can we become conscious of national peculiarities if we have never had the opportunity to regard our own nation from outside? Regarding it from outside means regarding it from the standpoint of another nation. To do so, we must acquire sufficient knowledge of the foreign collective psyche, and in the course of this process of assimilation we encounter all those incompatibilities which constitute the national bias and the national peculiarity. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. I understand England only when I see where I, as a Swiss, do not fit in. I understand Europe, our greatest problem, only when I see where I as a European do not fit into the world. Through my acquaintance with many Americans, and my trips to and in America, I have obtained an enormous amount of insight into the European character; it has always seemed to me that there can be nothing more useful for a European than some time or another to look out at Europe from the top of a skyscraper. When I contemplated for the first time the European spectacle from the Sahara, surrounded by a civilization which has more or less the same relationship to ours as Roman antiquity has to modem times, I became aware of how completely, even in America, I was still caught up and imprisoned in the cultural consciousness of the white man. The desire then grew in me to carry the historical comparisons still farther by descending to a still lower cultural level.

On my next trip to the United States I went with a group of American friends to visit the Indians of New Mexico, the city-building Pueblos...

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
Ich kann es nicht ertragen zu glauben, mein Leben geht so schnell und ich lebe es nicht wirklich.

Ernest Hemingway buch The Sun Also Rises

Quelle: The Sun Also Rises

William Shakespeare Foto

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Es gibt nichts Gutes oder Schlechtes, aber das Denken macht es so.

Quelle: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
Es ist nicht fair, andere zu fragen, was Sie selbst nicht tun möchten.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EcKZ8bbMLDMC&q=%22It+is+not+fair+to+ask+of+others+what+you+are+not+willing+to+do+yourself%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000366
15 June 1946
My Day (1935–1962)

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Wenn du das Fliegen einmal erlebt hast, wirst du für immer auf Erden wandeln, mit deinen Augen himmelwärts gerichtet. Denn dort bist du gewesen und dort wird es dich immer wieder hinziehen.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

This quotation was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer.
Misattributed
Variante: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Virginia Woolf Foto

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
Ich wollte über den Tod schreiben, nur das Leben brach wie immer ein.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Kurt Cobain Foto

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
Die Pflicht der Jugend ist es, die Korruption anzufechten.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Variante: The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Tennessee Williams Foto

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
Was ist gerade? Eine Linie kann gerade sein oder eine Straße; aber das menschliche Herz, oh nein, es ist gekrümmt wie eine Straße durch die Berge.

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire

John Henry Newman Foto
Paul Valéry Foto

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
Wir sollten jeden verlorenen Tag berücksichtigen, an dem wir nicht mindestens einmal getanzt haben.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Rainer Maria Rilke Foto

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
Finden Sie den Grund heraus, der Sie zum Schreiben auffordert. Sehen Sie, ob es seine Wurzeln in den Tiefen Ihres Herzens ausgebreitet hat. gestehe dir selbst, ob du sterben müsstest, wenn es dir verboten wäre zu schreiben.

Rainer Maria Rilke buch Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

Letter One (17 February 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Kontext: No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Bob Marley Foto

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
Wenn du das Kraut rauchst, offenbart es dich deinem Selbst.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Bruce Lee Foto

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Ein Weiser kann von einer dummen Frage mehr lernen, als ein Dummer von einer weisen Antwort.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Walt Whitman Foto

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Richte dein Gesicht immer zur Sonne und die Schatten werden hinter dich fallen.

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed

William Shakespeare Foto

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
Mit Fröhlichkeit und Lachen lassen alte Falten kommen

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Quelle: The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare Foto

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
Ich würde dich zu einem Kampf der Witze herausfordern, aber ich sehe, dass du unbewaffnet bist!

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
James Baldwin Foto

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Ich denke mir, einer der Gründe dass Menschen sich so stur an ihren Hass klammern ist der, dass sie spüren, wenn der Hass erstmal weg ist, dass sie dann gezwungen sind, sich mit Schmerz auseinanderzusetzen.

James Baldwin buch The Fire Next Time

"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Quelle: The Fire Next Time

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
Du schreibst nicht, weil du etwas sagen willst, du schreibst, weil du etwas zu sagen hast.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch The Crack-Up

Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

Nora Roberts Foto

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
Wenn du nicht nach dem strebst, was du willst, wirst du es nie bekommen. Wenn du nicht fragst, ist die Antwort immer nein. Wenn die nicht vorwärts gehst, bleibst du immer an derselben Stelle.

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
Viele Menschen treten in dein Leben ein, aber nur ein paar besondere Menschen hinterlassen auch Spuren in deinem Herzen.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Cage Foto

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”
Raus aus einem Käfig, in dem du bist.

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Viktor E. Frankl Foto

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Alles kann einem Mann abgenommen werden, aber nur eines: die letzte der menschlichen Freiheiten – die eigene Einstellung unter den gegebenen Umständen zu wählen und den den eigenen Weg zu wählen.

Viktor E. Frankl buch … trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Quelle: Man's Search for Meaning

Blaise Pascal Foto

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Ich hatte keine Zeit, einen kurzen Brief zu schreiben, also schrieb ich stattdessen einen langen.

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Quelle: The Provincial Letters

Rainer Maria Rilke Foto

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Ich möchte mit denen zusammen sein, die geheime Dinge wissen oder sonst alleine.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
Das Leben ist was wir daraus machen. So ist es immer gewesen und so soll es immer sein.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Von Neumann Foto

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath

Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.

Viktor E. Frankl Foto

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
Das einzige, was Sie mir nicht nehmen können, ist die Art und Weise, wie ich auf das reagiere, was Sie mir antun. Die letzte Freiheit besteht darin, die Einstellung unter bestimmten Umständen zu wählen.

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Mark Twain Foto

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
Wenn Tiere sprechen könnten, wäre der Hund ein ungeschickter Kamerad, der unverblümt seine Meinung herausbellt, während die Katze den seltenen Charme besitzt, nie ein Wort zuviel zu sagen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Henry Rollins Foto
Jonathan Franzen Foto

“Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.”
Ohne Privatsphäre gab es keinen Sinn, ein Individuum zu sein.

Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

Quelle: The Corrections

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