Quotes by german authors

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated. Helmut Kohl

Good Made Living Good Living More Underestimated Years Very Than Being

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud. Helmut Kohl

History Proud German Reasons Many

It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-'80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen. Helmut Kohl

Power Luck Stroke About Could Leaders Make Another Were Trusted Six Happen Really Who Things Things Happen Four

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton

Job Entertain Photographer Seduce Portrait Amuse

People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris. Helmut Newton

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps. Helmut Schmidt

Distant Must Small Take Steps Reach Goal Wants Many Whoever

People with visions should go to the doctor. Helmut Schmidt

People Doctor Visions Go Should

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor. Helmut Schmidt

Britain is less European-minded than Greece. Helmut Schmidt

Greece Than Less Britain

I will not be remembered in history. I have not been shot. I have not launched any great tragedy or victory. I have not borne any great defeat. It was a very normal - it still is a very normal - human life of a political leader. Helmut Schmidt

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. Herbert Marcuse

Problem Every Girlfriend Someone Due His Mode Capitalist Production Necessarily

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. Herbert Marcuse

Liberty Made Rule Powerful Instrument Domination Repressive Whole

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. Herbert Marcuse

Capitalism Revolution Stage Unlikely Highest Most Appears Necessary

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. Hermann Broch

Death Soul Become Liberated Those Some Part Without Pass Making Impression Close Deceased Richer Inherit Humanness

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. Hermann Broch

World Madness Gone Bit Through Advance Road Periods Always Reason

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. Hermann Broch

Man Hair Holding Way Hated Hates Someone He Head Feet Knows Surface His Up Person Precisely Who Each

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Training Matter Will Backwards Thoroughly Further Never He Alphabet Learned Without How Repeat Condition Greek Person May

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Time Feelings Every States Kind One Time Mental Absolutely Disappearance Disappeared Ideas Were Exist Sensations Which Then Present Consciousness