Quotes on German Language

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

A different language is a different vision of life.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.