Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible. The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.

One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English and German high school teacher. In my first year of university I had one subject to "fill in" and chose philosophy against the advice of my counselor. My university teachers in English and German were totally uninspiring; philosophy was wonderful and my results showed it. I chose it and basically backed into a situation in which only a philosophy career seemed a viable option. I've never regretted it, but there was a lot of serendipity.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

I've found a very good friend and a philosopher in Trivikram.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

An Indian captain is a friend, guide, philosopher to the players under him.