Ernst Moritz Arndt Quotes

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

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• Imitation
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• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

• What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • May

• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  

  Otto Frank
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly

  

  Andy Grove
  • Important
  • Real
  • Conviction

• For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Deep

• Ralph is a man of courage and a man of great conviction. For more than 23 years he has acted in the best interest of his constituents back home and has always put country before politics.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Great
  • Country
  • Home

• It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Man
  • Meaning

• The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Development
  • Conviction
  • Human Rights

• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • Men
  • Conviction

• Thus it often is with us, we take a course, and we keep to it, as if we were infallible, and we allow nothing to alter our convictions. We persuade ourselves that we are right, and we hold on our course unmoved. Death steps in: and now, when the past is irrevocable, the scales that have so long darkened our eyes, fall at once to the ground, and we see that we were wrong after all. How much cruel conduct, how many harsh words, how many little unkindnesses do we wish unspoken and undone when we look upon a dead face we have loved, or stand by the side of a new-made grave! how we wish—how we wish that we could but have the time over again! Perhaps in past times we were quite content with our own conduct; we had no doubts in our mind but that we always did what was right and kind, and that we were in every way doing our duty. But now in what a different light do right and duty appear! how we regret that we ever caused tears to flow from those dear eyes, now never to open again! why could we not have made those small concessions which would have cost us so little, why were we so hard upon that trifling fault, why so impatient with that little failing? Ah me! ah me! if we could but live our lives over again, how different, oh, how different it should be! And yet while we say this, we do not think that there are others yet alive upon whose faults we are just as hard, with whose failings we bear just as little, and that these, too, may some day go down into the quiet grave, and that we may again have to stand beside and cry 'peccavi'.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Conviction
  • Alter
  • Infallible

• Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Discover
  • Imitation
  • Mimicry

• Art is but imitation of nature.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Imitation

• My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • God
  • Intelligence

• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Term
  • Invention

• I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Art
  • Building

• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  

  Andrea Camilleri
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Mistake

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Time
  • Heard
  • Funky

• Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

  

  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  • Conviction
  • Imitation
  • Dissipates