Famous quotes containing the words germans and/or remained:
“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)
“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)