Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

[I'm] more German than Irish.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

I am almost German now.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

All German women are beautiful.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

The German asparagus are fabulous.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

German diligence is actually endurance.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

At the German FA, they don't like criticism.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

I can speak a bit of German.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

My father's family is German and Czech.

To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

My mother tongue is German.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.