Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Germany, Poet
February 28, 1812 – February, 8, 1882.

Berthold Auerbach was 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.

Also known as Author

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach
- Truth
- Purity
- Falsehood
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach
- Joy
- Gratitude
- Soil

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Berthold Auerbach
- Imagination
- Despot
What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

Berthold Auerbach
- Knowledge
- Tomorrow
- Worth
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.

Berthold Auerbach
- Eye
- Lightning
- Flash
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Berthold Auerbach
- Silver
- Bark
- Birch
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

Berthold Auerbach
- Fall
- Rain
- Grief
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Berthold Auerbach
- Mother
- Habit

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach
- Progress
- Trouble
- Source
When 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 Auerbach
- Mountain
- Clear
- Disaster
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Berthold Auerbach
- Work
- Religion
- Command
The world is the same everywhere.

Berthold Auerbach
- World
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Berthold Auerbach
- Alone
- Belief