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Last updated on October 31, 2024.
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.
I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.
Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.
The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.
I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Your dog is your only philosopher.
My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things
I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And if I can do that on top of entertain, then I leave the world a better place.
People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
There is a word in German, called gerechterweise, which means fairness. I need to be fair, it's just the part of my personality.
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
