Kathe Kollwitz Famous Quotes



"There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds."

I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.


Kathe Kollwitz Quotations






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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills"
Kahlil Gibran

"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road."
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
Edmund Burke

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out."
Michael Masukawa