Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 6)

"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The future belongs to the strong; the weak will be swept away by the tide of history"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"Politics is a game of power; the more power you have, the more successful your policies will be"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer"

Novalis, Poet

"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Grub first, then ethics"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"Boredom is rage spread thin"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"God will forgive me. It's his job"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"Every educated person is a future enemy"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives"

Paul Gerhardt, Writer

"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived"

Johann G. Seume, Theologian

"By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis"

Paul von Hindenburg, President

"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

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