Famous quotes containing the words german and/or christian:
“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)
“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)