Top 1200 German Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 9
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Last updated on October 31, 2024.
In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.
I speak German, Turkish and English perfectly. And I can communicate in Russian.
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep my mouth shut when I see injustice.
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
I appreciate that Bayern always wants to have the best German talents.
I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the title, 'No Mythologies to Follow.'
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country.
In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.
A true German can't stand the French,
Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
With German teams, they always sit together - there are no phones on the table.
The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.
I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.
Matthaus is a legend of the German game and he can say whatever he wants.
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.
Every good German team has strong leadership in the side.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.
I am very proud to be the captain of the German national team.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.
Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.
I'm extremely close to my mother. She's always meant a lot to me and has held the place of friend, philosopher and guide in my life.
I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.
