German Empire
Quotes & Thinkers from German Empire
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"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
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Erich Fromm
Psychology
Frankfurt School
1900–1980
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
69 quotes
Rudolf Carnap
Philosophy
Positivism
1891–1970
"In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere."
24 quotes
Max Weber
Science
1836–1897
"Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time."
39 quotes
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Art
Expressionism
1876–1907
"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"
53 quotes
Hermann Göring
Politics
1893–1946
"The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!"
36 quotes
Hermann Weyl
Mathematics
1885–1955
"Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect."
29 quotes
Jean Arp
Art
Dada
1886–1966
"Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance in the MoMA Online Collection"
41 quotes
Heinrich Himmler
Politics
1900–1945
"I don't want to hear anymore of your difficulties. For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise. How you do it is for you to figure out, not me."
22 quotes
Wilhelm II
Politics
1859–1941
"which, in conjunction with Blucher and the Prussians at Waterloo, saved the British Army from destruction."
64 quotes
Karl G. Maeser
Religion
1828–1901
"I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God."
13 quotes
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Dagobert von Gerhardt
Literature
1831–1910
1 quotes
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Art
Expressionism
1881–1919
"Available Works and Biography Galerie Ludorff, Duesseldorf, Germany"
4 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love"
— Erich Fromm, b. 1900View →
"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."
— Erich Fromm, b. 1900View →
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
— Erich Fromm, b. 1900View →
"Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below, fundamental for our discussion is the investigation of the idea of a testifying to one's belief as the psychological point of origin for methodical ethics."
— Max Weber, b. 1836View →
"Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time."
— Max Weber, b. 1836View →