Imperial German

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or german:

“The imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)