Quotes About Kultur

Es gibt keine Fremden am Hauptbahnhof, weil der eben für Fremde da ist, und darum sind dort alle Einheimische, und die Fremden sind sogar einheimischer als die Einheimischen.

Though writing in 1917, Mann was reflecting 1914, the year that was to be the German 1789, the establishment of the German idea in history, the enthronement of Kultur, the fulfillment of Germany's historic mission. In August, sitting at a café in Aachen, a German scientist said to the American journalist Irwin Cobb: "We Germans are the most industrious, the most earnest, the best educated race in Europe.