Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

All the time; same as you.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

Everything in the world is exactly the same.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

Consistency is the horror of the world.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

One place is very like another.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.