Top 1200 German Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line.

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

German football is very different to football in South America.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and when I was becoming a professional footballer, I felt like a German.

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.

I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don't. I feel unwanted and think that what I have achieved since my international debut in 2009 has been forgotten.

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

Although I won many titles on the competition circuit, my first professional audition was in 2015 for the popular German version of 'Strictly Come Dancing', called 'Let's Dance'.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.

I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

I mean, I would love to see the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, dressing up in a more cosy way, if she feels like doing it.

The typical German coach wants things done one way - his way.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.