Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 4

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

Whenever we had a good car then it was possible for me to perform well.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

You have a lot of pressure in football.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I think you have to be honest with yourself. You have to accept your situation and do the best that you can.

Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

Lionel Messi is not human. He is from another galaxy.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

Of course I have an advantage with my size on set pieces.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

One of my problems is to find the self.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I never look back, I look forward.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

If I don't get out of my comfort zone, I will never change and never improve.

High heels. I respect people who love them; they're just not for me!

Everything is politics.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

My equality rants have been out there so much that people must be getting sick of it, and frankly, so am I, but if a writer wants to do another story about it, then go for it, because the cause is a good one.

I wanted to sign. We scheduled a meeting for the final race of the season in Japan but Frank Williams wasn't there and then he suddenly pulled the offer. On a human level I'm very disappointed with him.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

You don't want other people to tell you what to do your whole life. And if you feel like shaving your hair off, then you just do it.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.