4580 Quotes by German authors

German quotations carry a lucid, handcrafted cadence, part philosophical drill, part tender confession. They weigh duty against freedom, time against longing, with dry humor that arrives like a raised eyebrow. Proverbs sharpen common sense; poets invite Sehnsucht and the hush of winter light. Think of clear nouns, patient syntax, and a habit of asking why until the truth stands bare. Between practicality and metaphysics, irony and earnestness, they sketch a moral landscape where words are tools, companions, and sometimes rescue.

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"Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"My life's mission is to unmask the Jews"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"I'm not a God, I make mistakes"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

Wilhelm Dilthey

"The script was very explicit about the nudity that was supposed to be in the movie. Actually, they don't show everything we shot. They would cut here and it was floored. It was very embarrassing"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Each murder is one too many"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens"

Diane Kruger, Model

Diane Kruger

"Every orientation presupposes a disorientation"

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

"When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

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