Top 100 Quotes About Georg
#1. Wilhelm studied Christoff and Georg. With a fair maiden in their midst, he knew his men too well to doubt their thoughts. He suddenly agreed with the dog. He didn't want them staring at her.
Melanie Dickerson
#2. Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
Peter Drucker
#3. Georg always looks beautiful! He wakes up like beauty himself
Bill Kaulitz
#4. In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.
Alena Graedon
#5. The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.
Rudy Rucker
#6. The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.
Isaiah Berlin
#7. Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of Siberia, in 1741. Hunted mercilessly by humans, within thirty years of its discovery by Steller this remarkable species was extinct.
Bill Bryson
#8. A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method)
John O'Donohue
#9. Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Tom Holland
#10. No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.
{Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.}
David Hilbert
#11. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#12. The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Georg Solti
#13. To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#14. The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner
#15. Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
Georg Henrik Von Wright
#16. How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#17. Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#19. With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#20. The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#21. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#22. If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#24. The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes
#25. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#26. Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#27. The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#28. A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#29. Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#30. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
#31. Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
Georg Baselitz
#34. Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#36. Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
Johann Georg Hamann
#37. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.
Richard Hamming
#39. Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#40. The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
Georg Solti
#41. Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment.
Georg Feuerstein
#42. The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
#43. Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#44. The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#45. History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#46. The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#47. Our deepest sorrows always flow from the same source as might have filled us with joy, and those wounds burn the fiercest which are inflicted by a hand we love.
Georg Ebers
#48. Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.
Georg Hermes
#49. Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel
#50. I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.
Georg Solti
#51. I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#52. We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Buchner
#54. Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.
Georg Baselitz
#55. A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#57. In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Georg Simmel
#58. On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
#59. On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel
#60. Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#61. Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#62. Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#63. But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
Georg Brandes
#64. Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#65. What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#66. As in play, it rests on a common willingness of the participants in conversation to lend themselves to the emergence of something else, the Sache or subject matter which comes to presence and presentation in conversation.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#67. There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another ... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#69. When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#70. The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#71. It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#72. We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#73. It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#74. A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
Georg Cantor
#76. Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
Georg Solti
#77. During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti
#78. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#79. True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
Georg Ebers
#81. Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.
Georg Ebers
#83. Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Georg Trakl
#84. It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#87. For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
Georg Trakl
#88. The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner
#89. Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl
#90. Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#92. The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner
#93. To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#94. Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.
Georg Brandes
#97. Woyzeck
Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.
Georg Buchner
#98. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#99. The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
Georg Hermes
