German Words

Famous quotes containing the words german and/or words:

    The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)