Germans Expelled

Famous quotes containing the words germans and/or expelled:

    Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The idealist is incorrigible: if he is expelled from his heaven, he makes an ideal out of hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)