German Quotes

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.