Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHJudaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHDiscontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOnly he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWith hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhat 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHYears teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHI have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHNo mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH