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If God did not exist, one would have to invent him.
This quote comes from the epistle to the author of the book by the three tricksters of the French philosopher Voltaire and reads in the original:
«Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. »
Erna Friedlaender wrote in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit about this quote:
"Voltaire's word: 'If there were no God, he would have to be invented' hurts every person for whom the existence of God has never been in doubt."
British zoologist Richard Dawkins said in an interview on the same subject:
“Maybe he's right. Indeed, it seems that many people cannot do without God. The exciting question, however, is whether we really all need a God. I do not think so."
Chose does not go entirely without women.
This is a song from the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by the Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán , the libretto of which is by Leo Stein and Béla Jenbach:
The whole thing is impossible without women.
The rose does not bloom without the sun!
So I don't want to conspire,
Will, girls, be yours! -
Whoever breaks his word now!
The operetta is set in Budapest and Vienna, just before the outbreak of the First World War . Cavaliers display affected behavior in this play and see the meaning of their lives in using up the wealth of the noble family.
Today the title is used in colloquial language in the sense of “It just doesn't work without women”.
Guest on earth
The biblical knowledge to be only "guest on earth" and thus mortal goes back to Psalm 119 verse 19 ( EU ), in which it says:
"I am only a guest on earth."
The poet and pastor Paul Gerhardt took these words as the beginning of a hymn:
I am a guest on earth
and I have no place here,
Heaven should be mine,
There is my fatherland.
Goethe also took up this image in his poem Blessed Sehnsucht :
And as long as you don't have
this: Die and become!
Are you just a dull guest
on the dark earth.
Georg Thurmair wrote in 1935:
We are only guests on earth
and wander
to our
eternal home without rest with various complaints .
Gaudeamus igitur
Gazettes shouldn't be embarrassed.
With these words - that newspapers should not be impaired in their reporting - ends what Cabinet Minister Heinrich Graf von Podewils, on the orders of King Frederick II of Prussia, wrote to a ministerial colleague in a letter dated June 5, 1740:
"Sr. Royal Mayestät have graciously ordered the Königl to me after the table was lifted. To open budgets and wars Ministri H. von Thulemeier's Excellency in the very same name, that the local Berlin newspaper writer should be given unlimited freedom in the Berlin articul of what anizo is doing here to write what he wants without being censored is supposed to divert such a thing, as the same word marriage was, but on the other hand, even so, the foreign ministries would not be able to complain if you might find passages in the local newspapers now and then displeasing to you. I took the liberty of proving that the Russian Hoff would be very pointless about this subject, Sr. Königl. Mayestät replied, however, that gazettes, if they should be interesting, should not be annoyed [...] "
Giving is more blessed than receiving.
This saying goes back to the Acts of the Apostles ( Acts 20,35 LUT ), where Paul of Tarsus passed it on as Jesus' word to the elders of the church of Ephesus :
" 35 I have shown you everything that one has to work in this way and take in the weak and remember the word of the Lord Jesus when he said: 'Giving is more blessed than receiving!'"
This quotation from the Bible is often quoted and transformed:
- Pope John XXIII
- “Give and it will be given to you. Those who are generous will always receive blessings. "
- mother Teresa
- "The more you give, the more you receive. And: Those who give with joy give the most."
The quote from the Bible is jokingly considered the boxer's motto.
Give freedom of thought!
The quote "Give freedom of thought, Sire!" Comes from Schiller's drama Don Carlos , where the Knight of Malta Marquis von Posa expresses the demand for freedom of thought against the Spanish King Philip II :
One stroke of the pen from this hand, and
the earth will be recreated . Give
freedom of thought.
In the one-to-one conversation between the Marquis von Posa and King Philip, Schiller's own convictions on a number of political issues are probably contained. The king immediately suspects that the marquis is a "Protestant", but the latter rejects it. He is a "citizen of those who will come", actually a figure of the late 18th century, Schiller's present. He had nothing in mind with democracy or a bourgeois revolution. He dreams of a time in which "civil happiness [...] will then walk reconciled with the greatness of a prince". Philip should become “one king of millions of kings”. All he has to do is give his subjects “freedom of thought”.
When this play was played in the Berlin Deutsches Theater during the time of the “ Third Reich ” in 1937 and the actor Ewald Balser fell on his knees as Marquis Posa and shouted: “Give yourself freedom of thought!”, He received huge applause, the four or five minutes lasted a long time. This was seen by many as a demonstration against the Third Reich . But Joseph Goebbels and the highest theater politician Rainer Schlösser asked:
"So what's going on? When 'Don Carlos' premiered, people clapped at this point too. What does it matter to us if people always clap at this point? Let play on! "
The piece was then performed 39 times in Berlin and not, as has often been rumored, removed from the program.
Thoughts are duty free.
The proverb already quoted by Martin Luther in his book On Secular Authority goes back to the Roman jurist Domitius Ulpianus, in whose digest of the Corpus Juris Civilis it says:
“Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur.”
"Nobody is punished for their thoughts."
Imminent danger
This phrase comes from the writings of the Roman historian Titus Livius , who writes about conduct in battle in his Roman History :
"Cum iam plus in mora periculi quam in ordinibus conservandis praesidii esset, omnes passim in fugam effusi sunt."
"When there was already more danger in the arena than help in maintaining the army order, everyone streamed apart in a haphazard flight."
Danger in arrears (GiV) is a term from procedural law . In the German system of procedural jurisdiction, it is a sub-case of urgent jurisdiction. It occurs when waiting for the decision of the competent authority or the competent court is not possible or not possible in due time, given the urgency of the matter.
With the formula Periculum in mora - dépèchez-vous! ("Danger if you hesitate! Hurry!") On September 18, 1862, Albrecht von Roon alerted the Prussian ambassador to France, Otto von Bismarck , to return to Berlin from Paris as quickly as possible in a telegram that has become famous . This followed immediately and became Prussian Prime Minister - the beginning of his career as a state leader.
It is dangerous to wake the leu.
Friedrich Schiller addresses the French Revolution of 1789 in his song of the bell and criticizes the inhuman Jacobin excesses,
It is dangerous to wake the leu
, the tiger's tooth is perishable, but
the most terrible of horrors
That is man in his madness.
“Leu” is an old word for lion. In the Süddeutsche Zeitung it said under the heading You can build on these phrases :
“In the temperate latitudes in which our classics lived and wove, the leu was at best known as a heraldic animal, and anyone who wanted to make sure of the tiger had to look up the Buffon. All the more numinous as a result, the danger and terror that both predators have been ascribed to. Today, since Leu and Tiger have long had the Steiff button in their ears and have become cuddly toys in the children's room, this seems only daring or ridiculous. "
Schiller's well-known sentence is often parodied as follows, for example:
"It is dangerous to wake the leu to stick his head in his mouth."
Or:
"It is dangerous to wake the leu,
more dangerous the ravages of time."
Fallen Angel
In the Revelation of John (12: 7-9) the fall of the angels who rose against God is described. The idea of the devil as a “fallen angel ” goes back to this passage in the Bible and a passage in the Gospel according to Luke (10:18) (“I saw Satanas fall from heaven”) .
The fall from hell , also called the fall of the angel, is a central motif of both Christian, Jewish and Islamic eschatology as well as Christian-occidental art. The idea of an apostate angel is common in all three of the world's major monotheistic religions. The angel is punished for his rebellion with the expulsion from heaven by God and his other angels.
The term was later applied to single mothers. The pastors noted whether a birth was legitimate or out of wedlock:
"In the latter case, they often apostrophized the mother's name with additions such as" huer ", whereas the father was left unscathed according to the tradition that only knows fallen angels and girls, but not fallen men."
By Chris Brown song is Fallen Angel with the refrain:
"She's a fallen angel, sent from heaven up above
She’s a fallen angel, waitin for me to love her, yeah
(Know that she's) She's a fallen angel, take your judgment off her
I know, that she's a fallen angel"
"She is a fallen angel, sent down from heaven.
She is a fallen angel, waiting for me to love her.
She is a fallen angel, take your judgment from her
I know she is a fallen angel"
You can defend yourself against attacks, but you are powerless against praise.
This sentence is often wrongly ascribed to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud , but always without a detailed source, for example by Federal President Johannes Rau in his speech at the 52nd University Association Day in Koblenz on April 8, 2002. In Freud's work and serious publications about but nothing of it can be found. The oldest reference on Google is a book by the political scientist and trade unionist Wolfgang Kowalsky from 1991, in which, without mentioning Freud, only a “bon mot” is mentioned.
Only soldiers can help against democrats!
“Only soldiers help against democrats” are the closing words of the derisive poem The Fifth Guild from the revolutionary year 1848 , which is reproduced in full in the article about its author Wilhelm von Merckel .
Fight against windmills
In the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes , the hero believes he recognizes enemies living in windmills, rides against them and falls from his horse, hit by a windmill wing. The windmill symbolically represents an overpowering, invincible opponent, against whom fighting only brings losses. Alternatively, the windmill can mean an unchangeable state or abstract force majeure, against which no form of resistance is worthwhile either. There is an obsession in the fight against windmills that leaves no thought of possible failure, nor does the question of meaning arise in this completely hopeless endeavor.
Get out of my heart and look for joy!
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This is the beginning of the summer song by the evangelical theologian and hymn poet Paul Gerhardt , which soon became a folk song :
Go out of my heart and seek Freud
In this beautiful summer time
At your God's gifts
Look at the beautiful gardens
and see how they have
adorned themselves
and you
In this song Gerhardt describes the blooming land in summer; Rainy days and sunshine, earthly suffering and earthly happiness. He sings the housewife's praises; but he also goes to the parents at the grave of their child or lets the deceased child speak to his parents.
The song remained restricted to the evangelical field - although there is no theological reason for this. Of course, it is now also sung by Catholics, especially at weddings that take place in summer.
Go where the pepper grows
With this idiom one wishes an unpleasant contemporary to a place as far away as possible. It originated at the time when the sea route to India was discovered and a rich trade in spices, especially pepper , arose.
Get out of the sun!
"Get out of the sun from me." Is a saying attributed to Diogenes by Sinope to Alexander the Great . Alexander, just elected supreme general, went to Diogenes and asked if he could do something for him.
answered the wise man. Deeply impressed by this needlessness, Alexander then remarked to his companions:
"Ei mē Alexandros ēmēn, Diogenēs an ēmēn."
"If I weren't Alexander, I wanted to be Diogenes."
I've had pain, I like it.
This quote comes from the picture story adventures of a bachelor of Wilhelm Busch and is often cited in connection with pain management. In the first part of the Knopp trilogy, Knopp's old friend Sauerbrot, whose wife has just died and is laid out in the next room, says:
"Heissa !!" calls out Sauerbrot -
"Heissa! My wife is dead !!
Here in this side
room she rests by the candlelight.
Today she doesn't bother us anymore,
Well, old man, sit down,
take the glass and toast,
never become a husband,
because as such, you can say,
you have to endure a lot of annoyance. "
It also says:
Hearts swell
, the star flashes.
Had pain
I like that.
But soon afterwards his wife reveals herself to be alive again and Sauerbrot itself falls dead.
(Sauerbrod falls frozen with shock, and now he's dead himself ...)
Never go to your desk if you are not called.
This verse was in a supplement to the Berliner Tageblatt , the weekly illustrated paper for humor and satire , in 1898 :
"Do not go to a Ferscht,
If you are not called."
"Never go to your prince if you are not called."
The sentence is still cited today as a warning to avoid being near your superior.
Go with the economy!
With this request begins the refrain of Konjektiven- Cha-Cha , which came out on record in 1961 in Germany at the time of the economic miracle in a recording by the Hazy Osterwald Sextet . The composer was the French musician Paul Durand (1907–1977); Kurt Feltz wrote the text .
Go with the economy (go with it, go with it!),
Go on this tour (go with it, go with it!),
Take yourself
Your part, otherwise you will be ashamed
and later you will not go
to the big banquet.
...
Money is the only cement in this world that holds
if you have enough of it.
Spiritual and moral turn
The catchphrase of the spiritual-moral turn , which was issued by the CDU politician Helmut Kohl , was also contained in a coalition paper in which Kohl promised a "spiritual-moral turn".
In the 1980 Bundestag election campaign , Kohl had already spoken of the need for a "spiritual and moral turnaround" and thus distinguished himself from the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , whom he held up against to surrender to the zeitgeist .
Avarice is cool.
Avarice is cool was an advertising slogan of the electronics retail chain Saturn in Germany and Austria. It was used in an advertising campaign in print media, radio and television in 2003 . The slogan was created by Constantin Kaloff from the Hamburg advertising agency Jung von Matt . The melody of the promotional song is based on the number 1 hit Geil by the British pop duo Bruce & Bongo from 1986. It begins with the following words:
The discjockey's geil gggg-geil the discjockey's geil gggg-geil
I said the discjockey's geil gg-geil gg-geil
everybody's geil gggg-geil everybody's geil gggg-geil
I said everybody's geil gg-geil gg-geil
Although the advertising itself was not perceived as particularly original in Germany, it received a lot of attention. The slogan became the subject of public discussion in 2004 because it reflected part of the German zeitgeist .
The campaign ended in Germany in October 2007; the slogan is still used in Austria.
Yellow peril
Money makes the world go round.
This proverbial expression can already be found in Georg Henisch's dictionary Teütsche Sprach und Weißheit, printed in 1616, and in a similar form in the opera Margarete by Charles Gounod , where the Rondo of the golden calf reads:
Yes, gold rules the world.
She builds thrones,
to scorn God,
the power that keeps her chained.
Money doesn't score goals.
With these words, the football coach Otto Rehhagel criticized the planned transfer of the player Ciriaco Sforza :
“Even after it became known that the Italian top division club wanted to offer up to 20 million marks for the Swiss national player, Otto Rehhagel refused categorically and said: 'Money doesn't score goals. Sforza is our best player. If at the end of the season someone says he can play in his favorite position in Milan, I congratulate him. But nobody is going now. '"
Money doesn't stink.
“Money doesn't stink” ( Pecunia non olet ) is the famous saying of the Emperor Vespasian when his son Titus reprimanded him for a tax on lavatories.
Urine has been used as a leather tanning agent and laundry detergent. In Rome, for example, amphora-like latrines were set up on busy streets to collect the urine needed by the tanners and washers. In order to fill the state coffers, Emperor Vespasian levied a latrine tax on these public toilets. When asked about it by his son Titus, he is said to have held money from the first income under his nose and asked whether the smell bothered him; when he said no, he replied: “Atqui e lotio est” (and yet it comes from the urine). The phrase has survived to this day to justify owning or acquiring money from unclean sources of income. The public toilets in Paris are still called “Vespasienne” today.
Opportunity makes thieves.
This sentence corresponds to the English "opportunity makes a thief" in Francis Bacon's 1598 letter to the Earl of Essex .
In Goethe's West-Eastern Divan , Hatem's courtship for Suleika begins with the words:
Opportunity does not make thieves,
you are the greatest thief;
Because she stole the rest of the love that
stayed in my heart.
Gioachino Rossini's one-act opera L'occasione fa il ladro after Eugène Scribes Le prétendu par hasard, ou L'occasion fait le larron had its world premiere in Venice in 1812.
This phrase is often used in variations, such as:
- "Opportunity makes love."
- "Opportunity seeks thieves."
You are only loved where you can show yourself weakly without provoking strength.
This well-known aphorism comes from the Minima Moralia of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno , who calls for the “human right to be loved by the beloved”.
Martin Blumentritt writes about this quote:
"The assignment of the side of strength to the masculine, that of the weak to the feminine, should correspond to social prejudice, but it can easily be seen that this is just broken through in love."
Praise be for what makes you hard.
This phrase comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's work Also Spoke Zarathustra , in which the prophet Zarathustra encourages himself with these words during an arduous ascent:
“When Zarathustra was climbing up the mountain, he thought on the way of all the lonely hiking from his youth, and how many mountains and ridges and peaks he had already climbed. I am a hiker and a climber, he said to his heart, I don't love the plains and it seems I can't sit still for long. "
A few paragraphs below it then says:
“Now the mildest thing about you has to become the hardest. Those who have always spared themselves a lot will ultimately suffer from their sparing. Praise be for what makes you hard! I do not praise the land where butter and honey flow! "
If you use this quote in everyday life today, you often want to express that it is beneficial to expose yourself to stressful situations.
Common good comes before self.
This maxim comes from the French state theorist Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu , who wrote in his main work On the Spirit of Laws :
«Le bien particulier doit céder au bien public. »
"The good of the individual must give way to the public good."
The slogan was also used by the National Socialists , who included it in their party program in 1920 . Common good comes before self-interest was stamped on the face or on the edge of some Reichsmark coins from 1933 onwards .
Common house Europe
This political metaphor was expanded by Mikhail Gorbachev into a linguistic tool in an effort to promote disarmament and building trust between the blocs. Gorbachev claims to have used this metaphor for the first time in his speech in Prague on April 10, 1987. In his book Perestroika. He devotes an entire chapter to the European Common House of the Second Russian Revolution .
The term “ common house” appeared in the early 1980s with Leonid Brezhnev , to whom the foreign policy expert of the CPSU Central Committee had written these words in his speech.
Generation golf
Generation Golf was a bestseller by journalist Florian Illies , in which the latter paints a critical picture of his own generation, born around 1970. His conclusion is that his generation is an uncritical, politically disinterested and consumer-striving “ego society”. It is named after the Golf from Volkswagen : It represents the branded product .
In an interview with Günter Gaus , Illies says:
“The trigger to write 'Generation Golf' four years ago, that was a collective feeling. And it was the demarcation from my siblings ten years older than me. "
Generation internship
The internship generation stands since the 1990s for a follow up by many to be negatively perceived lifestyle of the younger generation that increasingly unpaid or less paid jobs must. Young academics bridge potential gaps in their résumé by taking internship after internship. For the first time who had time -author Matthias Stolz early 2005 overwrite an article like this.
Generation X
The Generation X denotes born in the 1960s and 1970s generation. The term goes back to a 1991 episodic novel by the Canadian Douglas Coupland ( Generation X - Stories for an ever faster culture ) .
According to Coupland, it is characteristic of this generation that, for the first time, without the effects of war, they have to be content with less prosperity and economic security than their parents' generations. “The novel tells stories of the hangover mood in America after the last big booze between Reagan and Bush”. According to Newsweek, it is a generation with "too many TVs and too little work".
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In the US magazine Harpers Monthly , the inventor Thomas Alva Edison is quoted as follows in 1930:
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
This play on words is more clearly recognizable in English, as the word transpiration for "sweating" is less common in German .
The following statement is attributed to the German inventor Rudolf Diesel :
"Out of 100 geniuses, 99 perish undetected."
Genius is hard work.
Theodor Fontane formulated this insight in his Distichon Unter a portrait of Adolf Menzel , which he dedicated to the painter on his 80th birthday in 1895:
Gifts, who wouldn't have them? Talents - toys for children,
only seriousness makes a man, only diligence does genius.
Fontane and Menzel were members of the literary association Tunnel over the Spree . Menzel's typical character traits were a sense of duty, diligence and self-discipline. He attended the Berlin Academy of the Arts for half a year and then continued his self-taught education.
Genius loci
The Latin expression genius loci (protective spirit of a place) originally referred to the protective spirit of a temple or holy place in Roman mythology, which was often depicted in the form of a snake.
The expression comes from Virgil's epic Aeneid , where it says in the original Latin text:
Sic deinde effatus frondenti tempora ramo
implicat et geniumque loci primamque deorum
Tellurem Nymphasque et adhuc ignota precatur
flumina, tum Noctem Noctisque orientia signa
Idaeumque Iouem Phrygiamque ex ordine matrem.
Immediately after his arrival in Lazio , Aeneas prays to the genius loci, Tellus and the nymphs as well as to the river deities.
Enough of the cruel game!
In Friedrich Schiller's poem Der Taucher , the king's daughter asks her father not to put the courage of the brave squire to the test a second time:
The daughter heard this with a soft feeling,
And with a flattering mouth she pleads:
Let father enough be the cruel game,
He has passed you what no one
can do , And if you cannot tame the desires of the heart,
So let the knights shame the squire.
But the king throws the cup into the water again, causing the diver's death.
I loved kissing women.
This is the title of a hit that Richard Tauber and Hubert von Goisern made famous. The song comes from the operetta Paganini by Franz Lehár , text by Paul Knepler and Bela Jenbach . The refrain is as follows:
I liked to kiss the women,
never asked
if it was allowed.
Thought I would
take them from you.
Kiss them only
for that they are here
I loved kissing women is also the title of a Richard Tauber biography by Michael Jürgs .
Collected silence
Doctor Murke's collected silence is the title of a satire by Heinrich Böll from 1958. It tells of a radio editor who has the peculiarity of collecting the tapes cut from the programs on which nothing can be heard because the speaker is speaking just taking a break to play it to himself in the evening to relax from the chatty nature of the medium.
Böll exposes the radio, and especially its cultural departments, as an institution that helps smug pseudo-intellectuals to gain dubious fame.
Collected Silence is a program title by Mehmet Fistik on the topic of 35 years of pantomime in Germany. “Stölzl's collected silence” was the headline of an article in the news magazine Der Spiegel in 2000 on the Berlin stage dispute and the then Senator for Culture Christoph Stölzl .
History is doable.
In 1991 Jürgen Miermeister published texts by Rudi Dutschke under the title History is feasible. Texts about the ruling wrong and the radicalism of peace .
Dutschke is considered the best-known spokesman for the West German and West Berlin student movement of the 1960s .
Stefan Reinecke wrote on April 11, 2008 in the daily newspaper under the heading Why Dutschke is outdated :
“Perhaps 1968 was the last time that many innocently believed in the great narrative that 'history' exists and that it can be done. In 2008, after the end of Marxism and its derivatives, we see that the big narrative itself is history and that there are many, fragmented, fragmented, contradicting stories. In any case, utopia is now a word for Sunday speeches, not for domestic use. "
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to be there when they are made.
The bon mot - also in the version: "The less people know how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep!" - is often ascribed to Otto von Bismarck . However, it goes back to the American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) and has only been associated with Bismarck since the 1930s.
Yesterday hams to Willy derschlogn.
These Bavarian words (yesterday they killed Willy) are the beginning of a song by Konstantin Wecker from 1977, which became a cult song among young people in the late 1970s. The ballad deals with the confrontation between the 1968 movement and the past. Wecker tells of a quiet day in a beer garden that is disturbed by a reactionary who sings the National Socialist Horst Wessel song , which is then sung by others as well. Willy can't hold it anymore and he yells:
"Shut up, fascist !!"
"Shut up, fascist!"
Willy can now listen to the customary request at the time:
"Go to the Soviet Union, communist!"
A fight ensues in which Willy is killed.
The cabaret artist Willy Astor parodied Wecker's ballad with the song for morning grouches “Yesterday I hit my alarm clock”.
Yesterday still on proud horses
This verse comes from Wilhelm Hauff's poem Reiters Morgenlied , which begins with the following well-known verse:
Dawn,
do you shine for an early death?
Soon the trumpet will blow,
then I must give up my life,
Me and many a comrade!
The second stanza says:
Yesterday still on proud horses,
today shot through the chest,
tomorrow in the cool grave!
Joy shared is joy doubled.
This sentence comes from a poem by the writer Christoph August Tiedge :
Be blessed or suffer,
the heart needs a second heart.
Joy
shared is joy double, pain shared is pain half.
The quote is also often inaccurately ascribed to Cicero or Seneca .
Cicero says in Latin:
"Et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores."
"Sympathetic friendship makes happiness more radiant and relieves unhappiness."
At Seneca it says:
"Nullius boni sine socio iucunda possessio est."
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March separately, beat together
This quote goes back to the military theorist and most recently Chief of the General Staff Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke . Moltke was regarded as a brilliant strategist and was responsible for the development of the plans for the German-Danish War in 1864, the German War against Austria, Saxony, Hanover and Kurhessen ( Prussian-Austrian War ) in 1866 and the Franco-German War in 1870 / 71 involved. The simple as well as problematic tactic was used in 1866 during the decisive battle against Austria at Königgrätz and popularized under this wording.
Stepped curd becomes wide, not strong.
This verse comes from the Book of Proverbs in Goethe's collection of poems West-Eastern Divan :
Stepped curd
becomes wide, not strong.
But if you hit it with force
in a solid form, it takes shape.
You will know
such stones, Europeans call them Pisé.
(Pisé, from the French word Piser stomp =, is the archaeological term for rammed earth , the preferred building material in the ancient East.)
The quote is based on the following Tatar proverb:
"If the dirt is trodden, it spreads."
Goethe probably knew this from oriental literature. The purpose of the quote is to express that something that lacks depth cannot be brought to a higher level even with great effort.
In an article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit on the subject of the land of poets and dachshunds , it says under the heading of the quark :
“I have nothing against small talk, but I am against it if it is rolled out over half a thousand pages. Goethe already says (of whom the author believes that it becomes 'only bearable through champagne'): Stepped Quark becomes broad, not strong. "
Violence takes precedence.
This complaint is part of the prophet Habakkuk's complaint to God:
“Lord, how long should I scream and you won't hear? How long should I shout to you: "Outrage!" And you don't want to help? Why do you let me see malice and watch the misery? Robbery and iniquity are before me; violence takes precedence . That is why the law is powerless and the right cause can never win; for the wicked takes advantage of the righteous; therefore wrong judgments are made. "
Nonviolent resistance
The term Nonviolent Resistance goes to the Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi back in South Africa of nonviolent resistance (in the struggle for the rights of Indian immigrants his method English non-violence ) developed.
According to a law passed in 1913, only Christian marriages were considered valid. The Indians were upset because their children were considered illegitimate. Gandhi encouraged his compatriots to resist the law nonviolently. Indian workers went on strike, and the women also protested. The British responded to these actions with violence. Gandhi and his followers marched to the Natal border to trigger another mass arrest.
The Indian term for this type of nonviolent action is Satyagraha (Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह satyāgraha).
In his 1937 book An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism , Aldous Huxley gives a definition of nonviolent resistance: “Nonviolent resistance does not mean doing nothing. It means to make the tremendous exertion that is necessary to conquer evil with good. This exertion is not based on strong muscles and diabolical weapons: it is based on moral bravery, on self-control and on the unforgettable, tenacious awareness that there is no human on earth - as brutal as personal hostile he may be - without an innate foundation of goodness without love of righteousness, without respect for truth and good; all of this is achievable for anyone who uses the appropriate means. "
Weighed and found to be too light.
The term menetekel comes from the biblical book of Daniel , which describes how King Belshazzar gives a feast at which he and his guests drink from the vessels that his father Nebuchadnezzar had stolen from the temple in Jerusalem. Suddenly he sees fingers writing the following words on the wall:
"Mene mene tekel u-parsin."
Since no one can interpret the text for him, he summons Daniel to prophesy the downfall of his kingdom:
"They weighed you on the scales and found you too light."
King Belshazzar died the following night.
The literal translation of Mene mene tekel from Aramaic is unclear. Presumably it is the designation of three Persian coins. Daniel, on the other hand, interprets the oracle with the help of similar sounding Aramaic verbs: counted, weighed and divided :
- God has counted and ended your kingship
- You have been weighed on a scale and found too light
- Your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
Give me chastity and abstinence - but not immediately!
The church fathers Augustine of Hippo wrote in Latin in his Confessions (Confessions) :
"Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo."
Augustine's great moral dilemma was that he could not be celibate. Before his conversion he lived in a wild marriage for 15 years with a (not befitting) concubine, the mother of his son Adeodatus .
In his confessions he wrote:
“Even as a youth I was miserable, very miserable; At the beginning of my youth I asked you for chastity and said: 'Give me chastity and abstinence, but not immediately!' Because I was afraid that you would hear me all too quickly, heal me all too quickly from the sickness of my lusts, which I would rather enjoy to the brim than extinguish. So I walked on bad paths in godless superstition, although not convinced of it, I preferred it to everything else, which I did not seek with piety, but fought hostile. "
Splendor and misery
The splendor and misery of the courtesans (French: Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ) is a four-part novel by the writer Honoré de Balzac , in which he depicts the destructive force of passion.
The book title is quoted in modifications today when the coexistence of success and failure is to be addressed, such as:
- "E-learning: glamor and misery at universities"
- "India: land between splendor and misery"
- "Splendor and misery of the Middle Ages"
Faith, Hope and Love
Faith, hope and love are the Christian virtues listed in 1 Corinthians of the Apostle Paul :
"But now there remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of them is love."
These three cardinal virtues are symbolized as follows
Believe the
cross as a symbol of Jesus' death on the cross
Love
represented by a heart
Hope
symbolized by an anchor
A legend tells that the noble Christian widow Sophia of Milan distributed her belongings to the poor and traveled with her daughters Fides, Spes and Caritas from Milan to Rome to die there as a martyr.
Faith, Hope and Love is a poem by Christoph Johann Anton Kuffner, which Franz Schubert set to music in 1828. It begins with the following stanza:
Believe, hope, love!
If you stick to these three,
you will never divide yourself,
your sky will never be cloudy.
Reward like with like
This expression can already be found in the comedy Mercator (The Merchant) by the Roman comedy poet Plautus , in which father and son woo the same girl. There it says:
"Ut pur pari respondeas"
"To reward like with like"
This corresponds to the Mosaic legal principle "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
Don't look so romantic!
“Don't stare so romantically!” Was a motto of the playwright Bertolt Brecht . It was an invitation to the audience to break the identification with actors and roles. For this purpose, Brecht also created the so-called alienation effect , through which the action is interrupted by comments or songs in such a way that the viewer's illusion is destroyed and he can take a critical distance from the portrayed.
At the premiere of the play Drumming in the Night of Kragler, who was returning from the war, in 1922, Brecht had actors direct the scene to the audience; in a love scene it was: "Don't stare so romantically!"
Brecht wanted critical and thoughtful viewers. You should be less amazed and understand the world more. Brecht saw no place for romance . The audience should always be aware that they are viewing a play and not a reality. The focus should not be on the protagonists' feelings, but rather on the plot, because Brecht pursued educational intentions with his didactic pieces. He wanted to make people think.
Good luck for!
The luck on is a miner's greeting. He describes the miners 'hope that “ore veins may open up”, because when mining ore it was only possible to predict with uncertainty without prospecting whether the miners' work would lead to wages at all. Furthermore, this greeting is linked to the wish for a healthy exit from the mine after the shift. The miner's greeting was artistically implemented in the old workers' song Glück Auf, der Steiger geht (known as the Steigerlied ) before 1700 and has thus become part of the folk song. The following text corresponds to the traditional "original form" of the song.
Luck up, luck up, the climber is coming.
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In the long run, only the able are lucky.
This quote can be found in Helmuth Graf von Moltke's treatise on strategy:
“Of course, success is the main factor in determining the reputation of a general. How much his real credit is to it is extremely difficult to determine. Even the best man fails because of the irresistible force of circumstances, and the mediocre is just as often borne by it. But in the long run, luck is mostly only for the capable. "
On the website of the Spielbank Hamburg it says with reference to this quote:
“Many know von Moltke as a military strategist. But above all he was one thing: a Prussian. His thinking expresses what still counts today, especially in Germany: Prussian virtue. And it has nothing to do with luck. But with venerable work. In other cultures and countries, when it comes to luck and gambling, Prussians are not so tight-knit. 'To be lucky' and to be successful without work, that was not the right thing to do. "
Happiness in the corner
These words were probably spread through Hermann Sudermann's play Das Glück im Winkel , a funny story about a partner search that comes to an unexpected end.
In his autobiographical novel Semper, the writer Otto Ernst describes the man from a conversation about Sudermann's play, which he overheard in the restaurant:
“One day I'm sitting in the Siechen restaurant, here in Hamburg. In the niche next to me, invisible to me as I am to them, are three people who I can distinguish by voice as two gentlemen and one lady. One speaks literature.
'When should you write your first review?' asks a male voice.
'Monday,' replies the other.
,About what?'
'Sudermann,' Das Glück im Winkel '.'
'Well, there you have the best opportunity! You see, my boy, you must cause a sensation with your first criticism! Everyone has to take notice and ask: Who is that? He's a divine cheek! Your first review must hit like a bomb! '"
With luck in the corner one often characterizes a contemplative life today:
- Welcome to the holiday home 'Glück im Winkel'
- Glück im Winkel - nursing home park and retirement home
Peter Küstermann writes in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit under the heading Das Glück im Winkel about the former south-western state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern .
Happy is he who forgets ...
The catchphrase “Happy is the one who forgets ...” became world famous through the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (son), which premiered in Vienna in 1874 .
In an investigation into the origin, the musicologist Norbert Linke first demonstrated that this can be found in the operetta itself in three different forms with a total of five occurrences:
- "Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed"
- "Happy is he who forgets what but not to change is"
- "Happy is the one who forgets what can no longer be changed"
The third of the variants can only be found in the original text book of the Lewy publishing house (in the Austrian National Library ), the other two can be found in the autograph score from 1874 (in the Vienna Library ). Insofar as they are used differently in the operetta after 1874, they do not correspond to the original.
In the analysis of the origin, Linke traces the text back to the fact that it was already known in Berlin around 1750 (in the form: “Only happy is someone who forgets what cannot be changed”), but there is no printed proof of this was, but the first written evidence in the form of "Happy is someone who forgets what cannot be changed" (sic) in 1774 by the (then) student Karl Heinrich Köstlin (then Altdorf in Alsace ) can be proven.
According to Linke's research, the transfer to the score of this Austrian operetta is thanks to the brother of the librettist Richard Genée , Rudolph Genée, who comes from the Prussian Danzig as a suggestion or idea. This goes back to the use in a story by Eduard Maria Oettinger ( Master Johann Strauss , 1862), who lived in Dresden in Saxony and was friends with Rudolph Genée, who lived there.
Due to its historical derivation, the winged word cannot be associated with Austria (or Austria-Hungary) and only became known there when it was used by Richard Genée and Karl Haffner from Prussia with the operetta “Die Fledermaus”.
Von Doderer's Strudlhofstiege concludes with a somewhat cumbersome, but nuanced comment on this catchphrase : “'Happy isn't' (as the local council summarized) 'who forgets what can no longer be changed; something like this can only occur in an operetta. Such a view would mean nothing less than an absence of evidence, or should be regarded as such. On the contrary, those who are happy are those whose assessment of their own claims lags so far behind a higher decision that has come down in this case that a considerable excess naturally occurs. ' What else can you say here! And didn't it really fit the majors? "
Glimmering plumb
This word formation is one of the most famous slip of the tongue of the former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber . In the context of the sentence, Stoiber said:
“It has to be manageable, ladies and gentlemen, when I look at the CDU, the representatives of this party at the top, in the federal states, in the municipalities, then all that is needed is a little spray, so to speak, into the sluggish plumb bob glum flood that we can make it and therefore into the blazing flood, if I may say and therefore ladies and gentlemen. "
Stoiber's slip of the tongue has some cult status and is widespread on the Internet.
Grace of late birth
Finding grace in one's eyes
This idiom is found in Genesis , where the election of Abraham by God is reported. Abraham recognizes God in three strange men to whom he must give hospitality:
"Lord, if I have found grace in your eyes, do not pass your servant by."
Go West!
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“Go West”, originally “Go West, young man” (“Off to the west, young man!”) Was the request to bring the western area of the North American continent into the possession of the USA through settlement. The phrase was made popular primarily by the newspaper publisher and politician Horace Greeley .
Continuing the idea of the Manifest Destiny ("overt destiny"), many US citizens argued that it was a divine mandate to expand the United States across the North American continent. Similar doctrines (such as The White Man's Burden ) were used simultaneously by Europeans elsewhere in the world to justify colonial conquests in Africa and Asia.
In an extension of the saying, an album by Greeley Estates is called:
"Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East."
God Save the Queen.
God Save the Queen (“ God save the Queen !”) Or God Save the King (“God save the King!”) Has been the national anthem of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since the beginning of the 19th century . The authorship for the melody was claimed by the son Henry Careys for his father. While the lyrics could well have come from him, the origin of the melody has remained unclear.
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original
God save our gracious Queen, |
translation
God protect our gracious queen! |
God save the Queen is the title of a book with absurd translations from the Internet. The joke "God shave the Queen" (God shave the Queen.) A school band to have invented. The punk band Sex Pistols changed the text to the following in 1977:
"God save the Queen, her fascist regime."
"God preserve the queen, her fascist regime."
The BBC then deleted the band from their radio program and banned the Sex Pistols from performing. They rented a boat on the Thames during the royal celebrations and gave a live concert on it at full volume, which led to the water police intervening.
I gave gold for iron.
The historical catchphrase “I gave gold for iron” is related to the famous appeal “ To my people ” by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , who called on March 17, 1813 to fight against Napoleonic rule. In a wave of patriotic enthusiasm, the troops were equipped and strengthened. The motto of this fundraiser was "I gave gold for iron". This motif can already be heard in Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1, 4), which premiered in 1803 . In this play, Agnes Sorel, the lover of King Charles, challenges the king:
Turn your court into soldiers,
your gold into iron; all you have,
Throw it resolutely at your crown!
The origin of this expression is, however, already proven in the 16th century. Under this motto, campaigns were carried out during the First World War , during which gold wedding rings, for example, were exchanged for rings made of iron in order to finance the war.
I love gold and silver very much.
This quote is from the first stanza of a poem by August Schnezler :
I
praise gold and silver very much, Could also use it;
If only I had a whole sea to
dive into!
It is often used in German comics by Dagobert Duck and the tank crackers.
Golden mountains promise
This phrase goes back to the Roman comedy poet Terence , in whose comedy Phormio (1,2) someone lures his friend to Cilicia , who promises him "Berge Goldes" (Latin: montes auri pollicens ) .
This phrase probably goes back to gold deposits in the "golden mountains" of ancient Persia . But these were so far away that such a promise could not be kept. In the Greek original it says:
"Chrysā orē hypischneisthai"
The humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam writes in his collection of proverbs Adagia :
“A proverbial hyperbole for someone to make great promises and hold out the most glorious things in prospect. It derives from the megalomania of the Persians, who boasted of golden mountains because of their gold mines. "
Build golden bridges
This phrase can already be found in the Baroque journalist Johann Fischart , in whose main work Geschistorklitterung there is a passage in chapter 47 of the first edition where he says that one should “open the door to the enemy and make a golden bridge for him could move away ".
This strategy is based on an old rule of war, according to which one should not involve a fleeing enemy in combat, but even build bridges for them to facilitate their withdrawal.
Golden Rule
See the golden rule
Golden mean
This expression probably goes back to the Latin aurea mediocritas in the odes of the Roman poet Horace , who admonishes Licinius to moderate enjoyment:
"Auream quisquis mediocritatem
diligit, tutus caret obsoleti
sordibus tecti, caret invidenda
sobrius aula."
"Anyone
who chooses the blessing of the golden middle class is sure to shy away from the parched hut
Wust, shy away from the enviable
splendor of the palace."
Horace expresses something similar to the poet Ovid , who tells how the sun god Helios allows his son Phaeton (mythology) to drive the sun chariot and admonishes him:
"Medio tutissimus ibis."
"You will be safest in the middle."
But Phaeton doesn't stick to it and falls and the earth goes up in flames.
The expression “golden mean” describes the ideal compromise between too much and too little, but it also stands for mediocrity. See In danger and greatest need, the middle way brings death # background and q: Friedrich von Logau .
Golden calf
The phrases "worship the golden calf" or "dance around the golden calf" go back to the Old Testament Book of Moses (32), in which reports that Aaron , the brother of Moses , at the insistence of the people, pulled out of her jewelry on the mountain Horeb has a golden calf watered for the people to sacrifice while Moses received the ten commandments on the mountain :
When the people saw that Moses was absent and did not come back from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Make us a God who goes before us." For we do not know what happened to this man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt. Aaron said to them, Tear off the gold earrings from the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. So all the people tore off the gold earrings from their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he took them from their hands and formed the gold in a mold and made a cast calf. And they said, This is your God, Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
From this the common saying of the "dance around the golden calf" is derived as a symbol for a worship of wealth and power.
Golden age
The golden age originally meant the prehistory of the ancient saga, as the Greek poet Hesiod describes it in his work Works and Days as a general paradise. He sees the further development as a constant deterioration. In Greek the expression is:
“ Χρύσεον γένος ”
"Chryseon genos"
Hesiod describes the time of the golden race of mortals, in which the god Kronos (the father of Zeus ) ruled. Back then, people lived in peace, their bodies did not age and their death was a falling asleep.
In a figurative sense, a period of heyday or a period of great success is now referred to as the “golden age”. In modern times, the term "golden age" is used to retrospectively characterize heydays:
- Spain: Siglo de Oro
- Denmark: Den danske guldalder
- Netherlands: Gouden Eeuw
- Portugal: Era dourada
- Belarus: Golden Age
Golden recklessness.
The quote comes from the second stanza of Theodor Storm's poem For my sons :
The blossoming of the noblest mind
is respect; but at times
Are refreshing like thunderstorms
golden recklessness.
Storm used the expression "golden ruthlessness" four years earlier in a letter to Eduard Mörike in 1850 :
"If you want to express that wrongly understood consideration would have a detrimental effect in a certain situation, you can recommend 'golden ruthlessness', which should contribute to the beneficial clarification of a situation."
Gordian knot
In the third book of his story of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great, Quintus Curtius Rufus reports on the intricately intertwined and inextricable knot on King Gordios' chariot in the temple of Jupiter in the city of Gordion, and of the oracle that whoever knows how to untie the knot will rule over Asia will.
Alexander had cut the knot with the sword with the words "It does not matter how it is solved" (Nihil interest quomodo solvantur) and thus either mocked or fulfilled the oracle. According to another tradition, Alexander realized that all he had to do was pull out the stake to make the knot collapse.
" Cutting the Gordian knot " or "loosening" became a metaphor for overcoming a major difficulty in an unconventional but simple way.
The Lord God counted them.
This verse comes from the children's song Do you know how many little stars there are , which the poet Wilhelm Hey published in 1837 in the appendix to his collection of fables:
Do you know how many little stars there are
in the blue sky?
Do you know how many clouds go
far over the world?
The Lord God has counted them so
that he is not lacking
in the whole great number.
In Axel Hackes book The White Negro Wumbaba : Small Handbook of Interrogation there is the following version of the quote
"The Lord God has seven teeth."
God is always with the strongest battalions.
The Prussian King Friedrich II wrote in French on May 8, 1760 in a letter to Duchess Luise von Sachsen-Gotha:
"Dieu est pour les gros escadrons. »
He takes up a formulation of the French satirist Roger de Bussy-Rabutin:
«The order is for the wholesale escadrons against the petits. »
"God is usually for the larger battalions against the small ones."
God is dead!
The keyword “God is dead” is often associated with the idea that Friedrich Nietzsche conjured up or wished for God's death. In fact, this is only true in a sense. If you read the passages in Nietzsche's text, it becomes clear that he saw himself here rather as an observer. He analyzed his time, especially the (Christian) morality, which in his opinion has meanwhile become ailing. However, this does not mean that he has not welcomed the overcoming of ideas about God and morals.
The most important and most noticed passage on this topic is the aphorism 125 from the gay science with the title “The great person”. The speaker in it dreads the prospect that the civilized world has largely destroyed its previous spiritual foundation:
"Where is God going? he cried, I will tell you! We killed him - you and me! We are all his killers! But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon? What did we do when we chained this earth from its sun? Where is it going now? Where are we going Away from all the suns? Don't we keep falling? And backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there still an up and a down? Are we not wandering through an infinite nothingness? Doesn't the empty space breath on us? Hasn't it gotten colder? Doesn't night come and more night? […] God is dead! God stays dead! And we killed him! How do we console ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? "
Nietzsche was also not the first to ask the question of the “death of God”. Hegel expressed this thought as early as 1802 and spoke of the “infinite pain” as a feeling “on which the religion of the new age is based - the feeling: God himself is dead”.
God with us!
God with us was the slogan given by the Swedish King Gustav Adolf before the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. The draft of the Landwehr regulations comes from the Quartermaster General of the Prussian Army. Originally the motto in this manuscript was: “Holy duty or God with us .” These words have been crossed out and the words “dishonorable, defenseless” are placed in the margin instead, with a designation intended to convert them.
God with us is the German translation of Immanu'el ( עמנואל). The name Immanuel only appears four times in the Bible. Jesus gets this name when his birth is announced, but otherwise he is never called Immanuel: In the Gospel according to Matthew (1.23) it says:
"Behold, a virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, which means in translation: God with us."
God give us ear eyelids!
This sigh comes from Kurt Tucholsky's novel Gripsholm Castle. A summer story :
"'As quiet as it is now, it should be everywhere and always, Lydia - why is it so loud in human life?' - 'My dear jungle, you won't find that anymore today - I already know what you mean. No, I want to be extinguished once and for all ... '-' Why doesn't it exist, 'I insisted. 'There is always something. They always knock or they make music, a dog is always barking, someone walks around on your head above your apartment, closes windows, rings a telephone - God grant us ear eyelids. We are set up inappropriately. ' - 'Don't talk,' said the princess. 'Better listen to the silence!' "
Tucholsky's words are often quoted when it comes to unwanted noise . For example, a test report on noise protection plugs is introduced with the following words:
“'God, give us ear eyelids,' moaned Kurt Tucholsky. His request was not answered, but instead there are noise protection plugs. "
God created him, so let him apply to a man.
This judgment is made by the rich Porzia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, about a gentleman among her suitors. In the English original she says:
"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."
- Nerissa
- "What do you say to the French gentleman, Monsieur le Bon?"
- Porzia
- “God created him, so let him apply to a man. Seriously, I know it is sinful to be a mocker; but he! Yes, he has a better horse than the Neapolitan; a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is everyone and nobody. When a thrush sings, it leaps into the air; he fights with his own shadow. If I took him, I would take twenty men; if he despised me, I would forgive him: for he would like to love me to the point of madness, I will never reciprocate. "
God save me from my friends.
This saying, which sounds paradoxical, probably goes back to a collection of Latin proverbs from the 16th century, where it is reported that the Macedonian king Antigonus had a sacrifice made so that God might protect him from his friends. He explains that he can protect himself from his enemies.
A similar saying comes from the Prussian King Friedrich II :
"God protect me from my relatives, I can protect myself from my enemies."
Thank God! Now the wrongdoing is over.
At the end of his picture story Max and Moritz , Wilhelm Busch lets the whole village breathe a sigh of relief with these words.
Winnetouch quotes this sentence in the comedy Der Schuh des Manitu when the gangster Santa Maria sinks into the slurry pit .
God, have mercy on me sinner!
This is how the tax collector speaks in the parable of the Pharisee and tax collector narrated in the Gospel of Luke :
“ 10 Two people went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself: I thank you, God, that I am not like other people, robbers, unrighteous people, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and tithe everything I have. 13 And the tax collector stood at a distance, and would not lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast and said: God, be merciful to me sinner! "
God punish England!
God strafe England was a battle cry of the German army during the First World War . There was even a special greeting:
- Greeting: "God punish England."
- Response to the greeting: "He punishes it."
The exclamation was used on postcards , Cinderellas and the like. It was coined by Ernst Lissauer , who wrote a hate song against England . Lissauer and his “Haßgesang” found their way into Stefan Zweig's autobiographical work Die Welt von Gestern .
The painter, graphic artist, photomontage artist and set designer Helmut Herzfeld translated his name into English in 1916 as a reaction to Lissauer's "Gott strafe England" and called himself John Heartfield from then on .
God wants it!
With the words Deus lo vult (late Latin for “God wants it!”; French: “Dieu le veut!”) Pope Urban II called in 1095 at the Synod of Clermont for the liberation of Jerusalem. With this he founded the First Crusade , which should contribute to the liberation of the holy places and should help the individual participants to atone for their sins. The expression bears witness to a religious sense of mission that was ready to use any form of violence to achieve its goals.
In 1095, a meeting in Clermont in central France was actually about internal church matters, but in his closing speech Pope Urban gave it a very special direction:
“The eloquent Urban describes in poignant words the fate of Christian friends in Byzantium, who would suffer from aggressive Islam, churches and monasteries were desecrated and good Christians massacred. You have to rush to help. The enthusiasm of the audience is so great that some bishops 'take the cross' straight away. 'God wants it - Deus lo vult!' is said to have chanted the crowd like a battle cry. It marks the beginning of an era. "
God will forgive me, that's his job.
This is what Heinrich Heine is said to have said on his deathbed to an acquaintance or his wife, who were worried about the salvation of his soul:
«Dieu me pardonnera, c'est son métier. »
Heine was buried in the Parisian cemetery in Montmartre without the participation of a clergyman. In his will, Heine had forbidden any religious ceremonies as well as speeches. In his will of September 27, 1846 it says:
"I decree that my funeral should be as simple and as inexpensive as that of the greatest man in the people. If I die in Paris, I will not be buried in the churchyard of Montmartre, in any other, for I lived my dearest life among the population of Faubourg Montmartre. Although I belong to the Lutheran Protestant Confession (at least officially) I wish to be buried in that part of the cemetery which is assigned to the believers of the Roman Catholic faith, so that the earthly remains of my wife, who is zealously devoted to this religion, one day to be able to rest next to mine; [...]. "
God does not play dice.
God doesn't roll the dice ! (English: "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.") is a saying that is attributed to the physicist Albert Einstein . In fact, he wrote in a letter to Max Born in 1926 :
“The theory delivers a lot, but it doesn't bring us any closer to the mystery of the old. In any case, I am convinced that he does not roll the dice. "
Einstein believed that "the old man" (meaning God ) did not roll the dice, because he rejected the stochastic explanations of quantum mechanics . This was his answer to the question of what he did not like about quantum physics, which was emerging at the time , because there the states of elementary particles are not described exactly, but rather by means of location probabilities .
Gods, graves and scholars
Gods, Graves and Scholars is a non-fiction book on archeology that the German journalist Kurt Wilhelm Marek published in 1949 under the pseudonym CW Ceram .
The title was inspired by the film title People, Animals, Sensations and was a model for many other book titles. The title with its alliteration -Trias and the figure of speech of the word accumulation was often imitated. This is the name of a book with anecdotes from ancient times, gods, scoffers and madmen .
God's mills grind slowly.
This proverb is the beginning of the epitome Divine Vengeance by Friedrich von Logau and says that everyone will sooner or later receive the just punishment for their wrong. The full text reads:
God's mills grind slowly, but grind splendidly small.
Whether out of long-suffering he delays, he brings in everything with sharpness.
Logau probably took over the basic idea from the ancient Greek doctor Sextus Empiricus ; which says:
"The gods grind mills a long time afterwards, but they grind fine flour."
Gradus ad Parnassum
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Under the Latin title Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus) , the Jesuit Paul Aler published a kind of textbook for the preparation of Latin verses at the end of the 17th century , the full title of which is as follows:
- Gradus ad Parnassum sive Novus Synonymorum, Epithetorum Et Phrasium Poeticarum Thesaurus Latino-Germanicus
Carl Spitzweg's poor poet has a book with the title Gradus ad Parnassum by his bed. It is supposed to help him with the preparation of his verses.
The Parnassus , a mountain range in Greece, was considered the seat of Apollo and the Muses in ancient times . Latin or even Greek verses were considered the pinnacle of art until modern times.
Gradus ad Parnassum is also a poem by the writer August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , which begins with the following stanza:
Poets, do you want to sing songs,
Vivallerallerallera!
So always think above all things!
Vivallerallerallera!
Drunkenness in your mind,
That you too are subjects.
Vivallerallerallera!
Gradus ad Parnassum is also a teaching work for piano by Muzio Clementi (op.44) consisting of 100 etudes .
Gray, dear friend, is all theory.
With these words, Mephistopheles in Goethe's drama Faust I points out to the student in the study room scene the inadequacy of theoretical knowledge.
Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
And the golden tree of life is green.
The quote warns against losing sight of reality for all the theory. In the Goethe year of 1949 , the weekly newspaper Die Zeit wrote about the strategies of the occupying powers on the subject of federalism in Germany under the heading Gray, dear friend, is all theory :
“Americans have a system of federalism at home, and that's why they recommend us the strongest possible dose of this beneficial medicine. The French have no federalism at all in their own country, but for Germany they not only demand a federal state, but even a loose confederation, as their securité wants. The English also get by without federalism at home, and they would therefore be quite happy with it if we, who we ourselves want a federal state, weren't forced to overly federalist solutions by American missionary zeal and French securitism. "
In conclusion, it is stated that it does not matter who suggested something and for what motives, but only what comes out in practice.
Do not reach into a wasp's nest, but when you do grasp hold tight.
This sentence comes from the motto collection Ein gold ABC by the poet Matthias Claudius .
With these words it is meant that you should either let a delicate matter rest or deal with it consistently. In this sense, the former chairman of the conservative parliamentary group in the Prussian House of Representatives , Moritz Karl Henning von Blanckenburg , quoted them at the meeting on February 16, 1866.
Wasp nests consist of a paper-like mass. To ward off a troublemaker, the wasps use their sting, which, unlike the bees, has no barbs. Therefore, they can stab as often as they want and inject their poison in the process.
The handle into the hornet's nest is an oft-used formulation when it comes to that unpleasantness is touched, such as in the following statement with regard to the conditions in Turkey:
"The courageous reaching into the wasp's nest is therefore definitely recommended in this case."
Grab your pen, buddy!
At an authors' conference organized by the Mitteldeutscher Verlag in the VEB Chemiekombinat Bitterfeld on April 24, 1959, the aim was to clarify how working people can be given active access to art and culture. The “existing separation of art and life” and the “alienation between artist and people” should be overcome. To this end, artists and writers should support workers in their own artistic activities.
The directives mainly issued by Walter Ulbricht had the following motto:
"Grab your pen, buddy, the socialist German national culture needs you!"
This so-called Bitterfeld path was supposed to point the way to an independent “socialist national culture” and was commissioned by the artist to awaken the poet in his buddy .
The slogan was invented by the writer Werner Bräunig , who put it this way:
"Grab your pen, buddy, socialist national literature needs you!"
In his appeal, which Bräunig drafted together with Jan Koplowitz, it was formulated as follows:
“Writing is like miner's work. The writer has to dig deep into the tunnels of life [...] In the socialist state the creative forces of the people, which had to wither under the conditions of capitalist exploitation and were suppressed or distracted by the ruling class, are cultivated and promoted. [...] Grab your pen, buddy! [...] Draw from the abundance of your environment, your life. "
Modified to grab the camera! this slogan mobilized amateur filmmaking in the GDR . Many companies ran amateur film studios and financed expensive film work.
Peter Neumann wrote in the Berliner Zeitung in 2002 :
“With this slogan, the GDR tried to persuade workers to not only produce pea sausage or screws, but also literature. Scientists complain with moderate success. More than 40 years later, there is now a new attempt to motivate outsiders in the literary business to write. Now it's time to grab your pen, passenger! Whether this time something worth reading comes out of it - we'll see. "
The key requirement in this case, however, was that the story was entertaining.
Limits of humanity
These words are the title of a poem by Goethe:
Because with gods should not compete with any
human ...
What is the difference between
gods and humans?
… The wave lifts us, the wave
devours,
and we sink.
A small ring
limits our life ...
The poem was set to music by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf .
Limits to growth
Under the English title The Limit to Growth ( The Limits to Growth ) in 1972 a study by Dennis Meadows published and other publishers.
The study appeared in the “Reports to the Club of Rome ”, an association of business leaders, politicians and scientists from over 30 countries, which has set itself the task of researching general human problems.
The main conclusions of the report were: If the current increase in world population, industrialization, environmental pollution, food production and the exploitation of natural resources continues unchanged, the absolute limits of growth on earth will be reached in the course of the next hundred years.
The title is quoted as a warning against incessant growth in certain areas:
- "Exchanges: Limits to Growth"
- "China: The Limits to Growth"
- "Limits to growth - Trumpf is feeling the crisis."
Crucial question
The term Gretchenfrage as a name for an uncomfortable question of conscience that is reluctantly answered was based on the question Gretchen addressed to Faust:
"Now tell me, how about religion? You are a very good man, but I think you don't think much of it. "
Since Faust evades, she asks:
"Do you believe in God?"
Under the heading “The (clever?) Crucial question”, a Dr. Flower over Gretchen's question:
“With the crucial question, women (above all, but not only), who are biologically smart, have also been testing the bonding quality of potential partners for decades. Anyone who believably observed and committed to family loyalty by the otherworldly could also have proven to be a more reliable partner, were more likely to have been chosen (sexual selection) and raised more children (natural selection). So it would be worthwhile for both men and women to find and show credible forms of religiosity. "
The word crucial question is used in different contexts:
- "Crucial question: Apple iPhone - buy or wait?"
- "Critical climate protection issue for parliamentarians"
Greek seeks Greek woman.
Greek seeks Greek is the title of a short novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , which was filmed in1966 with Heinz Rühmann in the leading role.
It tells the story of the Greek accountant Archilochos, who dreams of the homeland of his ancestors, which he has never seen himself. Friends advise him to put up a marriage announcement and he advertises with the words “Greek seeks Greek”. He finds his dream woman and is amazed that high-ranking personalities suddenly greet him. Until he finally finds out on the wedding day that he has married a prostitute who is well known in the city . He is horrified, but finally humanity wins.
The title is used, deliberately without reference to Dürrenmatt's story, in various variations in personals, for example:
- "Saxon is looking for a Saxon."
- "Hesse is looking for Hessin."
- "Swabian is looking for Swabian."
Great events cast their shadows ahead.
This proverbial saying comes from the poem Lochiel's Warning (Lochiels warning) the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell . There it says that the low sun in the evening of life gives visionary power:
"And coming events cast their shadows before."
"And upcoming events cast their shadows."
The quote is used today to comment on the first signs of an upcoming event.
Great freedom No. 7
The title of the film Große Freiheit No. 7 by Helmut Käutner from 1943/44 refers to the street Große Freiheit in Hamburg's St. Pauli district , which was laid out in 1610.
In this film, Hans Albers plays a sailor, the partner of a nightclub owner, who appears as a mood singer. He falls in love with a young girl who, however, chooses someone else; the sailor then looks for his "great freedom" again at sea and hires on a ship.
The film was originally planned by the Propaganda Ministry as a tribute to the German merchant navy. The film was not allowed to be shown in Germany after its completion. It was criticized that the film does not show any "German sea heroes". Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels suspected ulterior motives from Käutner, who had already had several conflicts with the Nazi rulers, because of the title “Great Freedom”. Therefore, the film was renamed Große Freiheit No. 7 .
Big Brother
Big Brother (English: Big Brother ) is in the novel 1984 by George Orwell the dictator of the fictional, totalitarian state of Oceania, which drove the control and oppression of its citizens to perfection. The following warning is omnipresent in the novel:
"Big Brother is watching you."
"Big brother is watching you."
Surveillance cameras for video surveillance (so-called "televisors"), television receivers with large screens and integrated microphones for receiving commands are even installed in the living rooms and create an almost complete surveillance of individuals.
Based on Orwell's novel, the term “big brother” is now also used for a (state or private) surveillance apparatus.
“Big Brother Germany” is the headline of the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche , which deals with the surveillance of Germans by their state. The term is not only used for the surveillance of citizens, but also for the relationship between unequally strong states , although in the latter case the meaning is different.
- "How much does the 'big brother' intervene in our lives?"
- “Big brother on the net. Internet users often unknowingly reveal personal data. "
- “Big brother, neighbor or friend? - Russian-Ukrainian relations "
Great God, we praise you!
This is the beginning of the German Te Deum , a hymn of praise and thanksgiving by the Catholic Church, which, according to legend, the Saints Augustine of Hippo and Ambrose of Milan are said to have composed together. When Augustine received the baptism at Easter 387, Ambrose is said to have started this hymn and Augustine is said to have answered it in verse. The Latin song begins with the following words:
“Te Deum laudamus. Te Dominum confitemur.
Te aeternum patrem omnis terra veneratur. "
“Great God, we praise you,
Lord, we praise your strength.
The earth bends before you
and admires your works.
As you were before time,
you will remain forever. "
Great Patriotic War
"Great Patriotic War" ( Великая Отечественная война ) is the Russian name for the war against the Soviet Union , which the German Empire began on June 22, 1941. The war got this name in reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoléon .
On July 9, 1941, the Wehrmacht High Command reported 328,898 prisoners and 3,332 destroyed tanks (as many combat vehicles as the German Eastern Army owned). At that time, the Soviet leadership declared the Great Patriotic War.
In German, this part of the Second World War is known as the "Russian Campaign" or "Operation Barbarossa".
The heather is green.
This banal sentence is part of the refrain in the Heidelied When I went lonely yesterday ... by the heath poet Hermann Löns :
Yes, the heather is green, the heather is green,
But the roses are red when they bloom.
Grün ist die Heide is also a well-known German homeland film from 1932, which was the model for several remakes . The story is about a young forester whowants to catch a dangerous poacherin the Lüneburg Heath . He chases a man into the house of a landowner and gets to know his daughter, who tells him that her father, who used to own the whole area, is the poacher.
The quote from the Löns poem is often quoted and modified in connection with the Lüneburg Heath:
- "Yes, the heather is green ...: aspects of a special landscape" (book title)
Foundation and corner stone
This twin formula can already be found in the Old Testament book of Isaiah , where it says:
“That is why the Lord God says: See, I am laying a foundation stone in Zion, a stone that has been tried and tested, a precious corner stone that is well founded.”
Later the picture was doubled into the foundation and corner stone. The corner stone was a rectangular stone that formed the corner of a wall and thus gave the wall support.
Green lung
This metaphor for the green spaces of a large city probably goes back to a formulation by the British State Secretary William Pitt . In a speech given by his biographer William Windham to the House of Commons in 1808, it is said that Pitt had repeatedly said
"That the parks were the lungs of London"
"That the parks are the lungs of London"
Examples:
- "Rainforests - the green lungs of the planet"
- "How long will the green lung supply us?"
- "Schloss Benrath - the green lung of Düsseldorf"
Group picture with lady
Group picture with lady is a novel by Heinrich Böll from 1971. The central figure is an intelligent and kind-hearted but uneducated woman. Her family was one of the winners when the National Socialists came to power.
Today the book title is mostly used in a figurative sense. When women were increasingly appointed to the state cabinets, the new governments were usually titled with the caption as a group picture with women :
"At the level of the federal government in the 1980s, however, the well-known 'group picture with lady' remained, and it was only from 1990 that women were no longer isolated in a ministerial gentry."
- Group picture with women and men
- Group picture without gentlemen
- Group picture with two women - Silvio Berlusconi's government is in office
Good things take time
“ Good things take time ” is a quote from the novel Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which was first published in 1821.
Well roared lion!
The saying “Well roared lion.” Comes from Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream :
Thisbe.
- “This is Nickel's grave; where is my sweetheart? "
Lion.
- "Oh!" (The lion roars, Thisbe runs away.)
Demetrius.
- "Well roared lion!"
Theseus.
- "Went well, Thisbe!"
Hippolyta.
- “Seemed well, moon! - Indeed, the moon shines with a lot of decency. "
(The lion tears the Thisbe's cloak.) THESEUS.
- "Well groomed, lion!"
The saying mocks a boastful speaker. Today it is determined that someone has noticed something quick-witted, but the comment will still have no consequences.
Well roared, lion is also the title of a children's book by Max Kruse from the series Der Löwe ist los , whichgained great famethrough the performance of the Augsburger Puppenkiste .
Well meant is the opposite of good.
There are different versions of this statement.
When Gottfried Benn says:
“The word got around that the antithesis of art is not nature, but is well meant; ... "
Kettcar are changing the album Du und wieviel von your friends on their 2002 album :
"The opposite of good is good intentions."
Good angel
In the book of Tobias, Tobias comforts his wife when their son, the young Tobias, sets off on a journey with the words:
"Do not Cry; our son will go back and forth fresh and healthy, and your eyes will see him. Because I believe that a good angel of God will guide him and will send everything he has in mind. "
Good shepherd
This name for Jesus Christ goes back to his own words in the Gospel according to John :
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. "
The Good Shepherd ( ancient Greek ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλὸς ho poimēn ho kalos , Latin pastor bonus ) is one of the oldest and most common names for Jesus in Christianity .
The 23rd Psalm , also known as the Shepherd's Psalm or Psalm of the Good Shepherd, is one of the best-known Bible texts and begins with the following verses:
“ 1 A psalm of David. The lord is my shepherd; I will not lack anything. 2 He grazes me on green meadows and leads me to still waters. "
The Good Shepherd is the German title of the US spy film The Good Shepherd by Robert De Niro from 2006.
Individual evidence
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