A.R. Von Quotes

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims, since he denies it by his actions.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

I don't know whyI've got so much hopepinned to someone who will never call me home.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)

I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant

Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

One never reaches home, ' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us.

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam. Baihaqi

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

You fill my soul with hope and love.Together, we will remain through the heavens above.One soul, together. For always and forever…

Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

The only person your anger hurts is you. Let it go. Accept it. Move on.

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

Everything is red, freakin pink, and all heartsy. Everywhere! It’s driving me insane!

Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.

My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still.So fall with me. Fall down with me.And stay.

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.