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Quotes from A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose — Berthold Auerbach

1812–1882 Germany

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29 quotes

Nature has no moods. They belong to man alone.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love; for, really, attention is fraught with love, and perhaps that which is most unselfish.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

What people will say — in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

There is a childhood of the soul.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The best loneliness is when no human eye has rested on our face for a whole day.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Forgetting one’s self, or knowing one’s self, around these everything turns.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

He who is one with himself, is everything.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed, than to a sack of leaves.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Only what thou art in thyself determines thy value, not what thou hast.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

A mirror is the very foundation of self-consciousness.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The vain being is the really solitary being.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Berthold Auerbach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.