Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

I'm ashamed to be German.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian systems, the government is really more active in defining treatment, goals and defining health priorities. The German system is a competitive system with little government intervention. The price for this is that the government cannot set a health agenda. And the Scandinavian systems have little competition, so you often do have waiting lists. But on the other hand, you then have the government which can push for prevention.

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

I'm German, after all.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.