Top 25 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach of 37 - Page 2

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.

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

Feet, Mountain, Disaster

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

Abstract, Creeds, Institutions

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Berthold Auerbach

Mother, Good Mother, Habit

Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

All 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 Auerbach

Selfish, Men, Vanity

People 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

Eye, Maturity, Long

Berthold Auerbach (18??). “Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life”