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Winston S. Churchill Foto

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
Das beste Argument gegen die Demokratie ist ein fünfminütiges Gespräch mit dem Durchschnittswähler.

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. First known appearance is in a 1992 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rec.arts.comics.misc/EMj3ZowKq1U/E0dsEBwdZEgJ.
Misattributed
Quelle: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=average+voter#v=snippet&q=average%20voter&f=false

Wayne W. Dyer Foto

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Variante: You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Confucius Foto

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Schweigen ist ein wahrer Freund, der niemals verrät.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Margaret Cousins Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Der Sinn des Lebens ist es, nicht glücklich zu sein. Es ist nützlich, ehrenhaft, mitfühlend zu sein und einen Unterschied zu machen, dass Sie gut gelebt haben.

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

Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article "The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter" at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: "The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
Es ist alles zum Glauben, nicht wahr?

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

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”
Unreife Liebe sagt: Ich liebe dich, weil ich dich brauche. Die reife Liebe sagt: Ich brauche dich, weil ich dich liebe.

Erich Fromm buch Die Kunst des Liebens

Variante: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Quelle: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Hell is—other people!”
Die Hölle, das sind die anderen.

Jean Paul Sartre Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Variante: Hell is others.
Quelle: No Exit

Will Rogers Foto
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Foto

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Variante: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Kontext: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Bohumil Hrabal Foto

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
Ich stecke einen schönen Satz in meinen Mund und lutsche ihn wie einen Fruchttropfen.

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer
Charles Baudelaire Foto
Robert Fulghum Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Die Welt, wie wir sie geschaffen haben, ist ein Prozess unseres Denkens. Es kann nicht geändert werden, ohne unser Denken zu ändern.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Richard Bach Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Und so war ich angesichts des Sonnenscheins und der großen Blätter, die auf den Bäumen wachsen, wie die Dinge in schnellen Filmen wachsen, der vertrauten Überzeugung, dass das Leben mit dem Sommer wieder von vorne anfängt.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Maya Angelou Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Wenn wir lieben, streben wir immer danach, besser zu werden als wir sind. Wenn wir danach streben, besser zu werden als wir sind, wird auch alles um uns herum besser.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Confucius Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

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

Quelle: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Eine Karriere ist wunderbar, aber man kann mit ihr nicht in einer kalten Nacht kuscheln.

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

Variante: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Quelle: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53

Ansel Adams Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Zuletzt ist nichts heilig als die Integrität des eigenen Geistes.

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

Quelle: Self-Reliance

Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
Eine prüde Person ist eine Person, die denkt, dass ihre eigenen Anstandsregeln Naturgesetze sind.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Ambrose Bierce Foto

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Quelle: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

John F. Kennedy Foto

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Diejenigen, die eine friedliche Revolution unmöglich machen, werden eine gewaltsame Revolution unvermeidlich machen.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100&st=&st1=
1962

Franz Kafka Foto

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
Weißt du, was ein Pessimist ist? - Ein Mann, der glaubt, die andern seien ebenso abscheulich wie er selbst, und der sie dafür haßt.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Desmond Tutu Foto

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

Charles Bukowski Foto

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”
Der Unterschied zwischen einer Demokratie und einer Diktatur besteht darin, dass Sie in einer Demokratie zuerst wählen und später Befehle entgegennehmen. In einer Diktatur müssen Sie Ihre Zeit nicht mit Abstimmungen verschwenden.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Erfolg besteht darin, von Misserfolg zu Misserfolg zu gelangen, ohne die Begeisterung zu verlieren.

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Variante: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Quelle: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success

Orson Welles Foto

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
Der Feind der Kunst ist das Fehlen von Einschränkungen.

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Albert Einstein Foto

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
Sobald Sie das Universum als Materie akzeptieren können, die sich in nichts ausdehnt, was etwas ist, fällt es Ihnen leicht, gestreiftes Umschlagtuch zu tragen.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Thomas Aquinas Foto
John Dewey Foto

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
Misc. Quotes
Quelle: The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

Muhammad Ali Foto

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
Ich weiß, wohin ich gehe und ich kenne die Wahrheit, und ich muss nicht das sein, was du willst, dass ich bin. Ich bin frei zu sein, was ich will.

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

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Kontext: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
Es gibt einen Moment ... Oh, kurz vor dem ersten Kuss! ein geflüstertes Wort ... etwas, das sich lohnt.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

Quelle: This Side of Paradise

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

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

Variante: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Thich Nhat Hanh Foto

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Quelle: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Paulo Coelho Foto

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
Wenn Sie Ihren Weg finden, dürfen Sie keine Angst haben. Sie müssen genug Mut haben, um Fehler zu machen.

Paulo Coelho buch Brida

Quelle: Brida (1990).
Kontext: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Anaïs Nin Foto
Anaïs Nin Foto
Gustave Flaubert zitat: “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
Gustave Flaubert Foto

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
Es gibt kein Teilchen des Lebens, das keine Poesie in sich trägt.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Charles Bukowski Foto

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
Große Kunst ist Pferdekacke, kauf Tacos.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
Die Strafe des Lügners ist nicht, dass ihm niemand mehr glaubt, sondern dass er selbst niemandem mehr glauben kann.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Quelle: The Quintessence of Ibsenism

Jane Austen Foto

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
Dumme Dinge hören auf, albern zu sein, wenn sie von vernünftigen Menschen auf unverschämte Weise getan werden.

Jane Austen buch Emma

Quelle: Emma

Agatha Christie Foto

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Ein Archäologe ist der beste Ehemann, den eine Frau haben kann; je älter sie wird, um so mehr interessiert er sich für sie.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Variante: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Arthur Conan Doyle Foto

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Watson. Kommen Sie sofort, wenn es Ihnen passt. Wenn es unpassend ist, kommen Sie trotzdem.

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

Quelle: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

Franz Kafka Foto
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Von sich als einer Schauspielerin zu träumen ist aufregender, als eine zu sein.

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

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Alle glücklichen Familien sind einander ähnlich; jede unglückliche Familie jedoch ist auf ihre besondere Weise unglücklich.

Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variante: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Quelle: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Marcus Aurelius Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
Wir werden nicht durch die Erinnerung an unsere Vergangenheit weise, sondern durch die Verantwortung für unsere Zukunft.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
Ich möchte wissen, dass du dich in der gleichen Welt mit mir bewegt und geatmet hast.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quelle: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”
Es gibt zwei wesentliche Möglichkeiten im Leben: Zustände zu akzeptieren, wie sie sind, oder die Verantwortung dafür zu akzeptieren, sie zu ändern.

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Jane Austen Foto

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
Erkennen Sie Ihr eigenes Glück. Sie brauchen nur ein wenig Geduld, oder geben Sie ihr einen reizvolleren Namen - nennen Sie sie Hoffnung.

Jane Austen buch Sense and Sensibility

Quelle: Sense and Sensibility

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Wir sind die Herren unserer unausgesprochenen Worte und die Sklaven derer, die uns über die Lippen kommen.

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

Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Jane Austen Foto

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
Sie war vernünftig und klug, aber eifrig in allem: ihre Sorgen, ihre Freuden, konnte haben keine Mäßigung.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Quelle: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

John Steinbeck Foto

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
Es scheint mir, wenn Sie oder ich zwischen zwei Denk- oder Handlungsweisen wählen müssen, sollten wir uns an unser Sterben erinnern und versuchen, so zu leben, dass unser Tod der Welt kein Vergnügen bereitet.

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Quelle: East of Eden (1952)
Kontext: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Kontext: In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Milan Kundera Foto

“There is no perfection only life”

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Winston S. Churchill Foto
Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Quelle: Time Enough for Love

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Es ist ganz wahr, was die Philosophie sagt, daß das Leben rückwärts verstanden werden muß. Aber darüber vergißt man den andern Satz, daß vorwärts gelebt werden muß.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Journals IV A 164 (1843)
See Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, by Dermot Moran (2002)
Variants:
We live forward, but we understand backward.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Kontext: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Albert Einstein Foto

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Es wäre möglich, alles wissenschaftlich zu beschreiben, aber es würde keinen Sinn ergeben; es wäre ohne Bedeutung, als würden Sie eine Beethoven-Symphonie als Variation des Wellendrucks beschreiben.

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

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Meine Schuld, mein Versagen liegt nicht in meinen Leidenschaften, sondern in meiner mangelnden Kontrolle über sie.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
Ich möchte meine Unschuld nicht wiederholen. Ich möchte das Vergnügen, es wieder zu verlieren.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

Quelle: This Side of Paradise

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
Das beste, was ich für meinen Freund tun kann, ist einfach sein Freund zu sein.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Alexander Pope Foto

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Irren ist menschlich, Vergeben göttlich.

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Quelle: An Essay on Criticism (1711)

Lou Holtz Foto

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Fähigkeit ist das, wozu Sie fähig sind. Motivation bestimmt, was Sie tun. Die Einstellung bestimmt, wie gut Sie es tun.

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Variante: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Confucius Foto
Albert Einstein Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Wenn wir einem Mann mit seltenem Verstand begegnen, sollten wir ihn fragen, welche Bücher er liest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
P.G. Wodehouse Foto

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
Es gibt keine sicherere Grundlage für eine schöne Freundschaft als einen gegenseitigen Geschmack in der Literatur.

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Woody Allen Foto

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Mein einziges Bedauern im Leben ist, dass ich nicht jemand anderes bin.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Francis Bacon Foto

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
Wenn ein Mann mit Gewissheiten beginnen wird, wird er in Zweifeln enden; aber wenn er zufrieden sein wird, mit Zweifeln anzufangen, wird er in Gewissheiten enden.

Francis Bacon buch The Advancement of Learning

Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Quelle: The Advancement Of Learning
Kontext: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Ich möchte ohne Facelifting alt werden. Ich möchte den Mut haben, meinem Gesicht treu zu bleiben.

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

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

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

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Kontext: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I read poetry to save time.”
Ich lese Gedichte, um Zeit zu gewinnen.

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

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”
Wenn das Herz spricht, findet der Verstand es unanständig, Einwände zu erheben. Im Reich des Kitsches herrscht die Diktatur des Herzens.

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Charles Baudelaire Foto

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
Genie ist die willentliche zurückeroberte Kindheit.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Variante: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Quelle: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Paulo Coelho Foto

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
Die stärkste Liebe ist die Liebe, die ihre Zerbrechlichkeit demonstrieren kann.

Paulo Coelho buch Elf Minuten

Quelle: Eleven Minutes

Richard Bach Foto

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Quelle: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

John F. Kennedy Foto

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
Jene, die es wagen kläglich zu versagen, können am meisten erreichen.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Edward de Bono Foto
Agatha Christie Foto
Francis Bacon Foto

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Eine kluge Frage ist die Hälfte der Weisheit.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Colin Powell Foto

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Variante: You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
Jungen denken, Mädchen sind wie Bücher. Wenn das Cover nicht auffällt, lesen sie nicht, was sich darin befindet.

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

Variante: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Foto

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

Albert Einstein Foto

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
Ein wahres Genie gibt zu, dass er / sie nichts weiß.

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

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
Und die kleine schreiende Tatsache, die sich durch die ganze Geschichte zieht: Unterdrückung dient nur dazu, die Unterdrückten zu stärken und zu stärken.

John Steinbeck buch The Grapes of Wrath

Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath

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