Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff

Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff (German Admiral largely responsible for the reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 which encouraged the United States to enter WWI; lived 1853-1919 CE)

"I guarantee upon my word as a naval officer that no American will set foot on the Continent!"

• From a memorandum given by Holtzendorff translated in Barbara Tuchman's Zimmermann Telegram.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1864-1900)

'We modern men are the heirs of the conscience-vivisection and self-torture of millennia: this is what we have practiced longest, it is our distinctive art perhaps, and in any case our subtlety in which we have acquired a refined taste."

• From Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (German Philosopher, 1889-1976)

"In the broadest sense, death is a phenomenon of life. Life must be understood as a kind of being to which belongs a being-in-the-world."

• From Marin Heidegger's Being And Time (translated by Joan Stambaugh).

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Today it is impossible to say for certain why people are really punished: all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

• From Friedrich Nietsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann.

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"Praxis is an art, speculation is a science, religion is the sensibility and taste for the infinite."

• From On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despises by Friedrich Schleiermacher, translated by Richard Crouter.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, 1844-1900)

"On the contrary, let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist."

• From Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche.

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Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 CE)

"We could never be informed of anything whose idea we do not already have in mind."

• From Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics, c. 1686, translated by Mary Morris and G. H. R. Parkinson.

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"History, in the most proper sense, is the highest object of religion. It begins and ends with religion--for in religion's eyes prophecy is also history, and the two are not to be distinguished fro one another."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, translated by Richard Crouter.

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Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 CE)

"Bodies act as though, per impossible, there were no souls; and souls act as if there were no bodies, and both act as if each influenced the other."

• From Gottfried Leibniz' Monadology, translated by Mary Morris and G. H. R. Parkinson in Leibniz: Philosophical Writings.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)

"Every lawyer is either a good-for-nothing or a know-nothing. If a lawyer wants to dispute this, tell him, 'You hear? A lawyer shouldn't talk until a sow breaks wind!'"

• From Martin Luther's Table Talk, a collection of Luther's sayings gathered by his students and acquaintances and published after his death.

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Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen (11th Century Religious Scholar)

• Adam of Bremen wrote a book about the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, in modern northern Germany. The following passage is his diagnosis of the vikings, whose home was in Scandinavia to the north of Hamburg-Bremen.

"Poverty has forced them thus to go all over the world and from piratical raids they bring home in great abundance the riches of the lands. In this way they bear up under the unfruitfulness of their own country."

• From Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 CE)

"The darkening of the sky above mankind has deepened in step with the increase in man's feeling of shame at man."

• From Nietzshe's On the Genealogy of Morals.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)

"I would rather have the wrath of the world upon me than the wrath of God."

• To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate, 1620.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"I enter the fray after careful reflection and in a sufficiently hostile frame of mind."

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"The universe creates its own observers and admirers, and we only wish to intuit how that happens as far as it allows itself to be intuited."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, translated by Richard Crouter.
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