Quotes About German

In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous—both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and, in the process, wronged each other, as only brothers do.

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

It's my given, full name. Finn's not short for anything; it's just Finn Wolfhard. And then Wolfhard means, I think, heart of the wolf in German.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

German scientists, many of them former Nazis, were building rockets outside Cairo that could penetrate Israel within minutes.

En 1903, el respetable funcionario Erskine Childers escribió su única novela, una historia apasionante de espionaje y aventuras, en la que advertía a sus conciudadanos sobre los peligros de una invasión alemana. El enigma de las arenas fue un éxito inmediato, y aún se reedita.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he'd met on the internet.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Hitler abolished German trade unions in one predatory, black-Nazi eagle's swoop shortly after he seized power.

The German tried to struggle up, but Tommy's legs wrapped around him, so they fought almost as close as lovers, but with murder their only kiss

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

from investigating the German activity there.  The Germans had to be there for some classified reason.  What was that?  It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way.  With all the massive resources used, and

Moved by insane delusion and reckless self-regard, the German people overturned the foundations on which we all lived and built. But the spokesmen of the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing the ruin, which Germany began, by a Peace which, if it is carried into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have restored, the delicate, complicated organization, already shaken and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can employ themselves and live.

the Secret Service had unearthed a covert industrial spy network operating at the behest of a German commercial attaché

bombs set by German agents exploded in two factories in New Jersey.

Churchill half expected to see German paratroopers landing on the outskirts of London. On July 12 there was a serious discussion in the War Cabinet about whether the government should encourage the populace to attack German invaders with scythes and stones.

Courage in battle, loyalty, leadership through example rather than birth or status: these are the first qualities of the Viking heart, German

German critics like Paul de Lagarde said that the individual produced entirely by society's manners lacked depth; Nietzsche called him an emotional cripple.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

The enigma of history," thus we have styled him, though the title "Father of German unity," or again, "Father of grand strategy," would have been equally just--that is, if we can associate so homely a word as "father" with that cold unemotional mind, so utterly detached from the instincts and prejudices of normal humanity, soaring to a purely intellectual atmosphere too rarified for ordinary minds to breathe.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.