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Oscar Wilde Foto

“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Wenn die Leute mir zustimmen, habe ich immer das Gefühl, ich muss mich irren.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

Albert Einstein Foto

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: The world is dangerous, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

John Cage Foto

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s

Joseph Campbell Foto

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
Das Leben hat keinen Sinn. Jeder von uns hat einen Sinn und den geben wir dem Leben. Es ist eine Verschwendung, die Frage zu stellen, wenn man selbst die Antwort ist.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Margaret Mead Foto

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Denken Sie immer daran, dass Sie absolut einzigartig sind. Genau wie jeder andere.

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Variante: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Homér Foto
Emily Dickinson Foto

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

Emily Dickinson buch The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Variante: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Quelle: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”

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

Quelle: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Isaiah Berlin Foto

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Peter F. Drucker Foto
Albert Einstein Foto
William Shakespeare Foto

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
Höre vielen zu, spreche zu wenigen.

Quelle: Hamlet

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Du selbst zu sein, in einer Welt die dich ständig anders haben will, ist die größte Errungenschaft.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Rosalía de Castro Foto
Michael Ende Foto
Oscar Wilde Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
Machen Sie es sich zur Regel, einem Kind niemals ein Buch zu geben, das Sie selbst nicht lesen würden.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Lachen ist nicht der schlechteste Anfang einer Freundschaft und bei weitem das beste Ende.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Variante: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jerome K. Jerome Foto

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Ich mag Arbeit: es fasziniert mich. Ich kann stundenlang sitzen und es mir ansehen.

Jerome K. Jerome buch Three Men in a Boat

Variante: I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Quelle: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 15.
Kontext: It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Mark Twain Foto

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
Die interessantesten Informationen stammen von Kindern, die alles erzählen, was sie wissen, und dann aufhören.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Attributed to Cicero in J. M. Braude's Speaker's Desk Book of Quips, Quotes, & Anecdotes (Jaico Pub. House, 1966), p. 52.
Dennis McHenry in a 2011 post at theCAMPVS.com http://thecampvs.com/2011/08/03/cicero-on-books-and-the-soul/ identified a source for the exact form of words in the essay "On the Pleasure of Reading" http://books.google.com/books?id=0YfQAAAAMAAJ&dq=cicero%20%22room%20without%20books%22%20%2B%22contemporary%20review%22&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false by Sir John Lubbock, published in The Contemporary Review, vol. 49 (1886) https://archive.org/details/contemporaryrev55unkngoog, pp. 240–51 https://archive.org/stream/contemporaryrev55unkngoog#page/n250/mode/2up, in which Lubbock wrote that "Cicero described a room without books as a body without a soul" (p. 241). The same sentence may also be found on p. 61 https://archive.org/stream/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft#page/60/mode/2up of Lubbock's collection The Pleasures of Life. Part I. 18th edition (London and New York : Macmillan and Co. 1890) https://archive.org/details/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft, in a lecture titled "A Song of Books". McHenry suggested that Lubbock may have had in mind the words "postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit mens addita videtur meis aedibus" at Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8, which are translated by E. O. Winstedt on p. 293 https://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft#page/292/mode/2up of Cicero: Letters to Atticus I (London : William Heinemann, and New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912) https://archive.org/details/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft "Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul", and by Evelyn Shuckburgh on p. 234 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012541433#page/n283/mode/2up of The Letters of Cicero. Vol. I. B. C. 68–52 (London : George Bell and Sons 1908) https://archive.org/details/cu31924012541433 "Moreover, since Tyrannio has arranged my books for me, my house seems to have had a soul added to it" (although the Latin word " mens http://athirdway.com/glossa/?s=mens", rendered "soul" by both Winstedt and Shuckburgh, is more usually translated by the English "mind"). D. R. Shackleton Bailey in Cicero's Letters to Atticus (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1978), p. 162, translated "And now that Tyrannio has put my books straight, my house seems to have woken to life".
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Variante: Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima" A room without books is like a body without a soul

Percy Bysshe Shelley Foto

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Quelle: The Complete Poems

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Niemand kann dich dazu bringen, dich ohne deine Zustimmung, minderwertig zu fühlen.

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

Disputed
Variante: No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Quelle: Sometimes claimed to appear in her book This is My Story, but in The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes (2006), Keyes writes on p. 97 that "Bartlett's and other sources say her famous quotation can be found in This is My Story, Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography. It can't. Quotographer Rosalie Maggio scoured that book and many others by and about Roosevelt in search of this line, without success. In their own extensive searching, archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, have not been able to find the quotation in This Is My Story or any other writing by the First Lady. A discussion of some of the earliest known attributions of this quote to Roosevelt, which may be a paraphrase from an interview, can be found in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/30/not-inferior/.

George Orwell Foto

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
Die Menschheit hat die Wahl zwischen Freiheit und Glück, und für die große Mehrheit der Menschheit ist Glück besser.

George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

Robert E. Lee Foto

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175

Sylvia Plath Foto
Dorothy Parker Foto

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
Denjenigen wird schlecht vor Ruhe, die den Sturm kennen.

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Quelle: Sunset Gun: Poems

Zig Ziglar Foto

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Die Pflicht lässt uns Dinge gut machen, aber durch Liebe werden sie schön.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in ‪Primary Education‬ (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed

Joseph Campbell Foto

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
Dein heiliger Bereich ist dort, wo du immer wieder zu dir selbst finden kannst.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Michael E. Porter Foto

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
Das Wesen der Strategie ist, zu entscheiden, was man nicht tut.

Michael E. Porter (1947) American engineer and economist

Quelle: What is strategy?, 1996, p. 70

Emile Zola Foto

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎ (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
Beständigkeit ist das Kennzeichen des Fantasielosen.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885)
reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991).
Variante: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Herbert Marcuse Foto
John Locke Foto

“What worries you, masters you.”
Was dich beunruhigt, beherrscht dich.

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Wenn Sie eine Frau zum Lachen bringen, können Sie sie dazu bringen, alles zu tun.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
C.G. Jung Foto
John Nash Foto
William Shakespeare Foto

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Quelle: King Henry VI, Part 2

Arthur Conan Doyle Foto

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
"Großartig!" Ich schrie auf. "Elemental", sagte er.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Quelle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Nur langweilige Menschen sind beim Frühstück brillant.

Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte

Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
Wenn dich jemand einmal betrügt, ist es seine Schuld. Wenn er dich zweimal betrügt, ist es deine Schuld.

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

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Es gibt nur zwei Tragödien im Leben. Die eine besteht darin, dass man nicht bekommt, was man sich wünscht, und die andere darin, dass man es bekommt.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer

Mr. Dumby, Act III
Variante: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Oscar Wilde Foto

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Es gibt nur eine Sache auf der Welt, die unerfreulicher ist als dass über einen gesprochen wird, und die ist, dass nicht über einen gesprochen wird.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Variante: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
Glück ist kein Ziel, es ist ein Nebenprodukt.

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

Variante: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Quelle: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 95
Kontext: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

Bruce Lee Foto

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

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

Variante: Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own
Quelle: Bruce Lee — Wisdom for the Way

Zig Ziglar Foto

“Make today worth remembering.”
Mach die Gegenwart so, dass es wert ist, dass man sich daran erinnert.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Simone de Beauvoir Foto

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Das eigene Leben hat einen Wert, solange man dem Leben anderer einen Wert zuschreibt.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
B.K.S. Iyengar Foto
Zhuangzi Foto

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Quelle: Nan-Hua-Ch'en-Ching, or, the Treatise of the transcendent master from Nan-Hua

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”
Der Vorteil eines schlechten Gedächtnisses ist, dass man zum ersten Mal mehrmals die gleichen guten Dinge genießt.

Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

I.580
Human, All Too Human (1878)

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”

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

Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
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William Shakespeare Foto

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
In der Kürze liegt die Würze.

Quelle: Hamlet

Stephen R. Covey Foto

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Die meisten Menschen hören nicht mit der Absicht zu verstehen; sie hören mit der Absicht zu antworten.

Stephen R. Covey buch The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Quelle: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 239
Quelle: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Zig Ziglar Foto

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
Man muss nicht großartig sein, um anzufangen, aber man muss anfangen, um großartig zu sein.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Abwesenheit lässt das Herz wachsen.

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

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
Mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören ist die einfachste Sache der Welt. Ich hab es schon 100 Mal ausprobiert.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Theodore Roosevelt Foto

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Wenn Sie die Person in die Hose treten könnten, die für ihre meisten Probleme verantwortlich ist, würden Sie einen Monat lang nicht sitzen.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Oscar Wilde zitat: “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde Foto

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Ich habe nichts zu verzollen außer meinem Genie.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Rick Riordan Foto

“The real world is where the monsters are.”

Rick Riordan buch Percy Jackson – Diebe im Olymp

Quelle: The Lightning Thief

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Erfahrung ist der Name, den jeder seinen Fehlern gibt.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Variante: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Variante: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]

Michel De Montaigne Foto

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Das sicherste Zeichen der Weisheit ist die Fröhlichkeit.

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
William Blake Foto
Agatha Christie Foto

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
Es ist wirklich ein hartes Leben. Männer werden nicht nett zu dir sein, wenn du nicht schön bist, und Frauen werden nicht nett zu dir sein, wenn du es bist.

Agatha Christie buch The Man in the Brown Suit

Quelle: The Man in the Brown Suit

Theodore Roosevelt Foto

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

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

As quoted by John M. Kost http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=104 (25 July 1995) in S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996).
This appears to derive from a 1910 advertisement by writer Alfred Henry Lewis for a forthcoming series of biographical articles about Roosevelt: "All activity, Mr. Roosevelt has often shown that it is better to do the wrong thing than do nothing at all. In politics this last is peculiarly true. The best thing is to do the right thing; the next best is to do the wrong thing; the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still". (e.g. in La Follette's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=RV4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22best+thing%22+%22right+thing%22+%22worst+thing%22+nothing&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNksu-nZrMAhVDy2MKHSl1Df8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22the%20best%20thing%20is%20to%20do%20the%20right%20thing%22&f=false (28 May 1910)
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William Faulkner Foto

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
Es ist, als ob es nicht so sehr darum geht, was ein Kerl tut, sondern die Art und Weise, wie die meisten Leute ihm zusehen, wenn er es tut.

William Faulkner buch As I Lay Dying

Quelle: As I Lay Dying

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Ich mag Schweine. Hunde schauen zu uns auf. Katzen schauen auf uns herab. Schweine aber behandeln uns von gleich zu gleich.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variante: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Kontext: [Christopher Soames, Churchill's future son-in-law, remembered] Churchill showing him around Chartwell Farm [around 1946]. When they came to the piggery Churchill scratched one of the pigs and said: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Du bist so mutig und ruhig, dass ich vergesse, dass du leidest.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Variante: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
Heute Abend bin ich meiner selbst überdrüssig. Ich sollte jemand anderes sein wollen.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Orwell Foto

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Im großen und ganzen wollen die Menschen gut sein, aber nicht allzu sehr und auch nicht immer.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Quelle: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Madeleine K. Albright Foto

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life”

Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State

On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512
2000s
Quelle: Madam Secretary: A Memoir

John Lennon Foto

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
Du brauchst niemanden, der dir sagt, wer oder was du bist. Du bist, was du bist!

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Bob Marley Foto

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
Meine Musik wird für immer weitergehen. Vielleicht sagt das ein Narr, aber wenn ich die Fakten kenne, kann ich Fakten sagen. Meine Musik wird für immer weitergehen.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
John Muir Foto

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

July 1890, page 313
(From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844) "Essay VI: Nature": "the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.")
John of the Mountains, 1938
Kontext: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Arthur Miller Foto

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

Variante: You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
Quelle: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

Marcus Aurelius Foto

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Das Ziel im Leben ist nicht, aufseiten der Mehrheit zu stehen, sondern aus den Reihen der Wahnsinnigen auszubrechen.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Misattributed
Quelle: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy's Bethink Yourselves! http://www.nonresistance.org/docs_htm/Tolstoy/~Bethink_Yourselves/BY_chapter08.html by NONRESISTANCE.ORG. The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear in a 1904 translation of Bethink Yourselves http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/bethink-yourselves/8/. The 1904 translation may be abridged, whereas the NONRESISTANCE.ORG translation claims to be unabridged.

Bjarne Stroustrup Foto

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Bjarne Stroustrup buch The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
Quelle: The C++ Programming Language

Terry Pratchett Foto

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

Terry Pratchett buch A Hat Full of Sky

Variante: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Quelle: A Hat Full of Sky

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
Die Welt ist verändert worden, weil du aus Elfenbein und Gold gemacht bist. Die Kurven deiner Lippen schreiben die Geschichte neu.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf Foto

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Ich habe ein tief verborgenes, unausgesprochenes Verlangen nach etwas jenseits des täglichen Lebens.

Virginia Woolf buch Moments of Being

Quelle: Moments of Being

Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Ein wahrer Freund ist der, der deine Hand nimmt, aber dein Herz berührt.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Variante: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
Das angenehmste Gefühl auf der Welt ist es, anonym eine gute Tat zu vollbringen - und jemanden das herausfinden zu lassen.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Michel De Montaigne Foto

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
Es ist mir weniger wichtig, was ich für andere bin, als was ich für mich selbst bin. Ich werde allein reich sein und nicht durch Ausleihen.

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book II, Ch. 16
Attributed

C.G. Jung Foto

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Bis Sie das Unbewusste bewusst machen, wird es Ihr Leben lenken und Sie werden es Schicksal nennen.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”
Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.

Friedrich Nietzsche buch Ecce homo

Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
Foreword, in the Oscar Levy authorized translation.
Variant translations:
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Ecce Homo (1888)

Bertolt Brecht Foto

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Kunst ist kein Spiegel, der der Gesellschaft standhält, sondern ein Hammer, mit dem sie geformt werden kann.

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Mistakenly attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by Andrew Samuels, p. 9; mistakenly attributed to Brecht in Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80; variant translation: "Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it."
First recorded in Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1924; edited by William Keach (2005), Ch. 4: Futurism, p. 120): "Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes."
Disputed

Bruce Lee Foto
Robert Frost Foto

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Die Hälfte der Welt besteht aus Menschen, die nichts zu sagen haben, und die andere Hälfte aus Menschen, die nichts zu sagen haben und weiter darüber reden.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Variante: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Louis Aragon Foto

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”
Licht ist nur in Bezug auf Dunkelheit von Bedeutung, und Wahrheit setzt Irrtum voraus. Es sind diese vermischten Gegensätze, die Menschen in unserem Leben, die es scharf und berauschend machen. Wir existieren nur in Bezug auf diesen Konflikt, in der Zone, in der Schwarz und Weiß aufeinander prallen.

Louis Aragon (1897–1982) French poet, novelist and editor

Quelle: Paris Peasant

John Wooden Foto
John Nash Foto
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Ein Zyniker ist ein Mensch, der von allen Dingen den Preis kennt und von keinem den Wert weiß.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variante: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]

Napoleon Hill Foto

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Wenn du keine großartigen Dinge tun kannst, tue kleine Dinge auf eine großartige Weise.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Theodore Roosevelt Foto

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
Mut hat nicht die Kraft, weiterzumachen; es geht weiter, wenn du nicht die Kraft hast.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Liebe ist der Zustand, in dem das Glück eines anderen Menschen für den eigenen wesentlich ist.

Robert A. Heinlein buch Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Quelle: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
Sie können Ihre Umstände oft dadurch ändern, indem Sie Ihre Einstellung ändern.

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

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