German Possessions

Famous quotes containing the words german and/or possessions:

“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)

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)