Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbachwas a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 February 1812
CountryGermany
nature bird swamps
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
work command
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
eye maturity people
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
imagination despots
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
needs
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
vanity vain solitary
The vain being is the really solitary being.
lying people mind
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
money art valor
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
artist littles germs
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
inspirational book years
Years teach us more than books.
hatred soul harbors
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
fear justice strive
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
acceptance self affliction
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
self-improvement progress trouble
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.