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
work command
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
anger men oil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
belief firm
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
hands world hats
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
character stains
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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.
mother good-mother habit
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
imagination despots
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
needs
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
liberty devil
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
abstract institutions creeds
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
vanity vain solitary
The vain being is the really solitary being.
eye matter lightning
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
mean gay expression
The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.