Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOf all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHAll men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHHe who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIf you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHYears teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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 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 AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe world is the same everywhere.
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 AUERBACH