Skip to content

Books make men alone for themselves.

— Berthold Auerbach A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Wikiquote does not flag this quote as disputed or misattributed.

Source: On the Heights (Bunnett, trans.)
Work: A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose, 1889
Source quality: Source identified Names the work or year, but without an exact location.

More by Berthold Auerbach

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)

All Berthold Auerbach quotes →

Notes from Wikiquote

"Books", no. 485

Topics

Books

More quotes by Berthold Auerbach

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)

Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.

Auf der Höhe · On the Heights (1865)

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)

He who possesses a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone.

Auf der Höhe · On the Heights (1865)

All Berthold Auerbach quotes →

You may also like

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Berthold Auerbach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.