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Quotes About Wilhelm

Wilhelm was bombastic, overbearing, and contemptuous of what he perceived as softness in others. He described Czar Nicholas as "fit only to live in a country house and grow turnips.
~ Joseph E. Persico
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
~ Wilhelm Reich
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
~ Jack Zipes
two decades later the Rockefeller Foundation helped establish the Berlin-based Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.
~ Andrew Carroll
Someone had said, and Wilhelm agreed with the saying, that in Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
~ Saul Bellow
It makes me wretched, Wilhelm, to think that there should be men incapable of appreciating the few things which possess a real value in life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So lived these two fathers, often meeting to take counsel about their common concerns. On the day we are speaking of, it had been determined to send Wilhelm out from home, for the despatch of some commercial affairs.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This sally somewhat nettled Wilhelm; but he concealed his sentiments, remembering that Werner used to listen with composure to his apostrophes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thank you," said Himmler, who found the Windows file management system a diabolical confoundment. And they accuse me of crimes against humanity, he thought as he settled himself in at his desk. Wilhelm Gates, you are a beast, and your family will pay. His
~ John Birmingham
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
~ Wilhelm Reich
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
~ Wilhelm Ostwald
Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
~ crowd of frenzied females
Presupposition, principles, and such like forms still adorn the entrance to philosophy with their cobwebs.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
~ Gunter Grass
had a bad game with a couple of punch-outs and we had lost, and somebody asked Wilhelm, "Who do you want to have the keys?" His response was, "Give them to Schroeder. At least I know he's not going to hit anything with it.
~ Bill Schroeder
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
~ Gunter Grass
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
~ C. L. R. James
The biblical scholar Wilhelm de Wette generalized the idea: "The spirit of Protestantism . . . leads necessarily to political freedom.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.
~ Wilhelm Wien
So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.
~ James Gleick