Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 11)

"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The essential point of view of Christianity is sin"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success"

Max Born, Mathematician

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist