Gottfried Keller quotes

Gottfried Keller quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A human life is a schooling for eternity.”
-- Gottfried Keller

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“Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.”
-- Gottfried Keller

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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.”
“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”
“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”
“Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.”
“Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.”
“Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?'”
“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”

Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.
“We must remember that knowledge of oneâ€™s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”

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