Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on October 31, 2024.
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.
Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.
We have German Shepherds, gifted by a friend, and the rest are street dogs we have adopted.
I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.
Not many German keepers can say they've played in a Champions League final.
I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.
The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher
My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
For us women, to be German meant, and still means, always to be strong.
When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head.
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.
If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual.
