
“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
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“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Also, ich liebe dich, weil das gesamte Universum sich verschworen hat, um mir zu helfen, dich zu finden.
Quelle: The Alchemist
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Es ist nicht die Länge des Lebens, sondern die Tiefe.
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
Es ist wichtig, nichts zu erwarten; alle Erfahrungen, einschließlich der negativen, als bloße Schritte auf dem Weg zu betrachten und fortzufahren.
“No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer…”
Niemand hat Angst vor der Höhe (od. Höhenangst), sie haben Angst herunterzufallen.
Niemand hat Angst "ich liebe dich" zu sagen, sie haben Angst vor der Antwort...
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig.
Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig.
Letter to Carl Seelig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Seelig (11 March 1952), Einstein Archives 39-013
1950s
“You see, but you do not observe.”
Sie sehen, aber Sie beobachten nicht.
Quelle: A Scandal in Bohemia
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Die Höhle, die Sie fürchten zu betreten, enthält den Schatz, den Sie suchen.
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Manche Menschen wünschen sich, dass etwas passiert, andere wollen, dass etwas passiert und wieder andere sorgen dafür, dass es passiert.
Variante: Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
Auf der verlängerten Strecke gibt es keine Verkehrsstaus.
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
Angesichts der Schmerzen gibt es keine Helden.
Quelle: 1984
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Was auch immer Sie sind, seien Sie ein guter.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Es gibt keinen Grund, zu strahlen. Es ist nicht notwendig, jemand anderes als man selbst zu sein.
Quelle: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
“When one door is closed, many more is open.”
Wenn eine Tür geschlossen ist, weisst Du, dass eine andere geöffnet ist.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
Song lyrics
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
Die einzigen normalen Leute sind die, die du nicht besonders gut kennst.
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
Das Herz des Menschen ist sehr ähnlich wie das Meer, es hat seine Stürme, es hat seine Gezeiten und in seinen Tiefen hat es auch seine Perlen
Quelle: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Judge not unless you judge yourself”
Beurteilen Sie andere nicht, bis Sie sich selbst beurteilen.
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Denken Sie daran, heute ist das Morgen, um das Sie sich gestern Sorgen gemacht haben.
Quelle: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Es gibt kein Mittel gegen die Liebe, als noch mehr zu lieben.
Variante: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
Wohl bin ich ein Wald und eine Nacht dunkler Bäume: doch wer sich vor meinem Dunkel nicht scheut, der findet auch Rosenhänge unter meinen Zypressen.
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Leben - es gibt nichts Selteneres auf der Welt. Die meisten Menschen existieren lediglich.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
Bilde die Leute gut genug aus, damit sie gehen können, und behandele sie gut genug, damit sie nicht wollen.
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
Ich habe den Mut zu sterben. Was ich wissen möchte ist, hast du den Mut zu leben?
Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
Ich bin nicht auf dieser Welt, um deine Erwartungen zu erfüllen, und du bist nicht auf dieser Welt, um meine zu erfüllen.
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
Bildung ist eine Zusammenfassung dessen, was die Schüler zwischen Vorlesungen und Seminaren untereinander unterrichten.
Variante: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Wenn ich ein Buch lese und es meinen ganzen Körper so kalt macht, dass kein Feuer mich jemals erwärmen kann, weiß ich, dass das Poesie ist.
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Sie haben Feinde? Gut. Das bedeutet, dass Sie sich irgendwann in Ihrem Leben für etwas eingesetzt haben.
Often attributed to Churchill, this thought was originally expressed by the French author Victor Hugo in Villemain (1845), as follows: You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Villemain is a brief segment taken from Hugo’s Choses Vues (Things Seen), a running journal Hugo kept of events he witnessed. The original French versions of these journals were published after Hugo's death.
Misattributed
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
Das Leben wird dir von ganz alleine Schmerz bescheren. Deine Verantwortung ist es, Freude zu schaffen.
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
Es gibt nichts auf dieser Welt, wovor ich Angst habe, es zu sagen.
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
Bildung ist unser zukünftiger Reisepass, morgen gehört den Menschen, die sich heute darauf vorbereiten.
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variante: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Quelle: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Kontext: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
Schön zu sein bedeutet, man selbst zu sein. Du musst nicht von anderen akzeptiert werden. Du musst dich selbst akzeptieren.
“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
Quelle: Little Women
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Weder der erhabene Grad an Intelligenz oder Fantasie noch beides führt dazu, dass man ein Genie wird. Liebe, Liebe, Liebe, das ist die Seele des Genies.
True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart's souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon [Harper-Collins, 1966, ISBN 0-060-92692-9], p. 312.
Misattributed
“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
Hab keine Angst vor Feinden, die dich angreifen. Fürchte Freunde, die dir schmeicheln.
Quelle: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”
Vielleicht ist es nicht zu spät, um zu lernen, zu lieben und vergessen zu hassen.
Quelle: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
Wenn Sie wirklich eine gemeine Person sind, werden Sie als Fliege zurückkommen und Kacke essen.
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
Menschen tun alles, egal wie absurd, um ihrer eigenen Seele nicht zu begegnen.
CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Kontext: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Sie haben Macht über Ihren Geist - nicht außerhalb von Ereignissen. Erkenne das und du wirst Kraft finden.
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
Früher dachte ich, dass jeder, der etwas Seltsames tut, seltsam ist. Jetzt weiß ich, dass die Leute, die andere seltsam nennen, seltsam sind.
“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Die Wurzeln der Bildung sind bitter, ihre Früchte aber sind süß.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Wenn du Menschen helfen willst, sag ihnen die Wahrheit. Wenn du dir selbst helfen willst, sag ihnen, was sie hören möchten.
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Wenn Sie die Art und Weise ändern, wie Sie die Dinge betrachten, ändern sich die Dinge, die Sie betrachten.
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
Deine Augen zeigen die Stärke deiner Seele.
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
Schließ' die Augen und ich küss' dich und morgen ich vermiss' dich.
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, vor dem Elend des Lebens zu flüchten: Musik und Katzen.
Variante: There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Sie lieben jemanden nicht wegen seines Aussehens, seiner Kleidung oder seines schicken Autos, sondern weil er ein Lied singt, das nur Sie hören können.
“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”
Die besten Bücher … sind diejenigen, die Ihnen sagen, was Sie bereits wissen.
Quelle: 1984
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
Du musst vorsichtig sein: sag zu niemandem ein Wort über nichts, nie.
“If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
Wenn die Dinge nicht scheitern, dann sind Sie nicht innovativ genug.
Fast Company, article "Hondas in Space" https://www.fastcompany.com/52065/hondas-space (1 February 2005)
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
Glück ist ein guter Fluss des Lebens.
As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
“Life ain't a rehearsal, the camera's always rolling”
Das Leben ist keine Probe, die Kamera dreht sich fortlaufend.
"Miss Me", Thank Me Later, Lil Wayne (2010)
2010s
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
Ein Kind, ein Lehrer, ein Buch und ein Stift können die Welt ändern.
UN speech, June 2013
Kontext: So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.”
Derjenige, der weiß, wann er kämpfen kann und wann nicht, wird siegreich sein.
Quelle: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack
“In peace, prepare for war. In war, prepare for peace.”
Sometimes erroneously prepended to the opening line "The art of war is of vital importance to the State", but appears to be a variation of the Roman motto "Si vis pacem, para bellum". It's not clear who first misattributed this phrase to Sun Tzu. The earliest appearance of the phrase in Google Books is 1920, when it appeared in a pharmaceutical journal, but no attribution was given then.
Misattributed
“We had a beautiful dream and that was all.”
The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.
Marie Antoinette to the Chevalier Jarjayes on his persuading her to escape alone from the Tower; Lettres, II. p. 433; also quoted in Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001) by Antonia Fraser, ISBN 0307277747.
“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”
Es ist besser, für das gehasst zu werden, was man ist, als für das geliebt zu werden, was man nicht ist.
“The future's too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.”
Die Zukunft ist zu hell, um in der Vergangenheit zu verweilen. Das Leben bewegt sich schnell, renne schneller.
“It's important to remember that we all have magic inside us.”
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Glück ist ein Parfüm, das du nicht auf andere sprühen kannst, ohne selbst ein paar Tropfen abzubekommen.
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Die einzige Person, die Sie sein sollen, ist die Person, die Sie wählen.
“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.”
Niemals sind wir ungeschützter gegen das Leiden, als wenn wir lieben.
Quelle: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2; as translated by James Strachey, p.63
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Man braucht im Leben nichts zu fürchten, man muss es nur verstehen. Jetzt es ist es an der Zeit, mehr zu verstehen, damit wir weniger fürchten.
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Wir bitten nicht um Glück, nur ein bisschen weniger Schmerz.
Variante: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Quelle: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Kontext: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Ich bin ein langsamer Wanderer, aber ich gehe nie zurück.
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variante: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Wer die Vergangenheit kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Zukunft. Wer die Gegenwart kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Vergangenheit.
Quelle: 1984
“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
Quelle: As You Like It
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
Ich wäre lieber ein Optimist und ein Dummkopf als ein Pessimist und richtig.
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
Manchmal wollen die Menschen die Wahrheit nicht hören, weil sie nicht wollen, dass ihre Illusionen zerstört werden.
“Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
Nur im Dunkeln sieht man die Sterne.
Variante: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Kontext: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
Übung macht den Meister, aber niemand ist perfekt. Warum also üben?
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mut ist Widerstand gegen Angst, Beherrschung der Angst - nicht Abwesenheit von Angst.
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
Leben ist einfach mit geschlossenen Augen.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967)
Lyrics
Variante: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
Kontext: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me. Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
“There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
Um Wissen zu erwerben, muss man lernen; aber um Weisheit zu erwerben, muss man beobachten.
As quoted in Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue (2001) by Sandra Ford Walston
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
Lass dich von niemandem so tief herunterziehen, dass du ihn hasst.
Quelle: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
Die besten Ideen sind die einfachsten.
Quelle: Lord of the Flies
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
Du hast heute nicht gelebt, bis du etwas für jemanden getan hast, der es dir nie vergelten kann.
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
Ich suche, ich strebe, ich bin mit meinem ganzen Herzen dabei.
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
Wer ein "Warum" hat, kann mit fast jedem "Wie" umgehen.
Quelle: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Alles hat Schönheit, doch nicht jeder sieht sie.
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
Bete nicht für ein einfaches Leben, bete für die Stärke, ein schweres Leben zu ertragen.