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Last updated on November 29, 2024.
When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
There's no better way for me to end my time with the German team than by winning the World Cup.
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.
The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.
The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag
There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.
Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.
I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.
We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.
It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
