Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on October 31, 2024.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!
The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.
The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.
I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.
I have two dogs, a springer spaniel and a German shepherd. One of them's name is Nolan Arenado.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.
German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.
When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand.
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the common Indian is a thinker is vital.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini.
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
