German Philosophy Quotes

• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• Woman was God's second mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Powerful, Mistake

  The Antichrist aphorism 48 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Hannah Cowley 1

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Years, Way

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Philosophy, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophy, Men, Political

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Religion

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• And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Brother, Philosophy, Thinking

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• For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

  Paul Engle

  Summer, Philosophy, Vacation

  Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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