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La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita ( The Sweet Life ) is the name of an Italian film based on a script by Federico Fellini . The film is about the life of the " high society " in Rome in the fifties. The life between street flirting and parties every evening is disrupted by the existential questions of life.
The tabloid journalist Marcello is on the hunt for the "sweet" secrets of the celebrities on the Via Veneto with its exclusive nightclubs and cafes.
Fellini got the inspiration for the film from the photographer Tazio Secchiaroli. He became known through a snapshot of King Farouk of Egypt when the monarch knocked over a table out of anger at intrusive photographers. In the film he is called the paparazzo . It was named after the hotel owner Coriolano Paparazzo from Catanzaro, of the Guide By the Jonian Sea of George Gissing is mentioned. Fellini had read the book while preparing for the film and was intrigued by the name. Paparazzo (plural paparazzi) has become synonymous in many languages with tabloid photographers following celebrities through the film.
La Grande Nation
La Grande Nation (German: the great nation ) called General Napoleon Bonaparte the French in the proclamation he addressed to the Italians in 1797 when he left Italy.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe used the expression the great nation with reference to the French in the collection of short stories, Conversations of German Emigrants, written in 1793 and 1795 .
Napoleon III emphasized the authorship of his uncle in the letter he addressed to Minister Rouher on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1869 by raising the pension of the veterans.
This expression is less common in France, however. In the daily newspaper Die Welt it says in the context of the coverage of the Soccer World Cup 2006 :
- “ If local journalists had to pay five euros into the babbling box for every use of the phrase“ La Grande Nation ”, they would have collected enough money after the Brazil win to buy all of Chelsea FC from Roman Abramovich. "
The French media representatives who traveled to the World Cup were surprised to find out what the term Grande Nation actually meant. The Germans' image of France implies that the French are a proud people who love their country and are a little inclined to feel great. It also alludes to France's colonial past as a former world power.
French call their country:
- la nation - the nation,
- la republique - the republic,
- la patrie - home
- or l'hexagone - the hexagon
According to Welt , anyone looking for the expression grande nation on German sites will find 276,000 records with Google . On French-language sites there are only 175,000, but this also includes the large nation of Algonquin Indians.
Laugh, Bajazzo!
This quote (Italian: Ridi, pagliaccio! ) Comes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Bajazzo ( Pagliacci ), in which the comedian Canio, the Bajazzo , has just learned that his wife has a lover. He thinks of revenge, but he has to go on stage. Desperately he says to himself:
- “ Just wrap yourself in trinkets
and put make-up on your face.
People pay and want to laugh here.
And when Harlequin steals your colombine,
laugh, Bajazzo, and everyone applauds!
Turn into jokes
the pain and the tears,
the pain and the tears
and woes! Ah!
Laugh, Bajazzo,
at broken love.
Laugh at the pain that poisons your heart. "
Canio later stabs his fleeing wife in the back with a knife. The lover is also stabbed to death by the maddening husband, who sends the audience home with the following words:
- “ La commedia è finita. "
- “ The comedy is over. "
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire, Laissez aller (German: “ Let's do it, let's go! ”) Was a French catchphrase of economic liberalism in the 18th and 19th centuries, which advocated the theory that the economy would develop best without government intervention.
The recommendation on laisse faire la nature (" Let nature do it ") can already be found in 1707 in the dissertation of the French economist Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert .
“ Laissez-nous faire ” (“ Let's do it ”) is the answer from the businessman Legendre to the founder of mercantilism, Jean-Baptiste Colbert , when he asked “ What can be done to help you? "
The maxim “ laissez faire ” appears in 1751 by Marc-Pierre d'Argenson , and in 1759 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ascribes “ laissez faire, laissez passer ” to the economist Vincent de Gournay .
In education , laissez-faire is the term used for a style of upbringing in which the child is left to its own devices, which should not be confused with anti-authoritarian upbringing .
Country of poets and thinkers
For the standing turn of Germany as the “land of poets and thinkers” see Poets and Thinkers .
Land of early risers
“ Land of early risers ” was the advertising slogan of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt from 2005 to 2014 .
Land of unlimited possibilities
The designation of the United States of America as the “land of unlimited possibilities” was coined in 1902 by the writer Ludwig Max Goldberger after a study trip. When he was asked in New York by a representative of the Associated Press what his impressions were of the United States, he said, according to the version in which the New York state newspaper published the interview in German, among other things:
- “Europe must stay awake. The United States is the land of opportunity. "
The newspapers appearing in English brought the word into the version:
- "The United States is the country of unlimited possibilities."
The name only became a popular expression when Goldberger published four papers in the Berlin magazine “Die Woche” and a book in 1903 with the subtitle “Observations on the Economic Life of the United States of America” . It says:
- “The economic giant America finds the strong roots of its strength in the soil of its country, and this grants it those 'unlimited possibilities', of which I have always spoken, for ever new surges after every storm and stress. And America, happier than Antaeus, can never be torn away from mother earth and thus from the never-ending source of its strength. "
Land of smiles
The Land of Smiles is the title of an operetta by Franz Lehár from 1929, the action of which is partly set in China , a country in which all people are said to hide their true feelings behind the mask of an impenetrable smile.
At the beginning the Chinese prince Sou-Chong is as envoy in Vienna and has an eye on the count's daughter Lisa, which, according to the Chinese motto " Always smile ", he does not show at first:
- “ Of the longing that consumes me.
Even if we Chinese break our hearts, who
cares, we don't show it.
Always smiling and always happy,
always satisfied, whatever happens.
Smile despite pain and a thousand pains, but
how it looks in there is nobody's business. "
Sou-Chong is then called back to become prime minister, which quickly brings the young love into conflict with tradition.
Initially the play was called The Yellow Jacket and was libretted by Victor Léon , whose daughter Lizzi, however, moved it to the Chinese milieu.
Landgrave, get tough!
This request goes back to a Thuringian legend in which it is reported that Landgrave Ludwig II ruled so leniently that the nobles were able to exploit the people. Then one evening the Landgrave found a night's camp in a forge in Ruhla, unrecognized:
- “ The Landgrave knocked on the door and asked to be admitted. His clothes were dirty and since he had a hunting horn with him, he pretended to be the Landgrave's hunter. “Ugh, the landgrave! Whoever calls him should wipe his mouth, ”the blacksmith exclaimed. "I want to lodge you tonight, but not for your master's sake. "
The landgrave, however, could not sleep, because the blacksmith worked non-stop and called out with every blow of the hammer:
- “ Landgraf get hard, get hard like this iron! "
And he cursed the Landgrave: “What use are you to the poor people? Can't you see how your nobles plague their subjects? ”And the blacksmith told the unrecognized landgrave how the nobles squeezed the people and they mocked the landgrave:
- “ Soon we will have to pay interest for the air from their forest. "
These words finally moved the landgrave to take action against robber barons and from now on he was nicknamed " the iron one ". He tamed the nobility and, after a conspiracy, even had the feeble vassals plow a field as draft animals.
Long, long ago.
The phrase “ long, long ago ” is mostly used to introduce or close memories of things long past. Originally it was the title of a song. The line “ Long, long ago ” recurs again and again like a chorus and comes from English, where it means “ Long, long ago ”. The lyrics and the melody of the song are from Thomas Heynes Bayly.
The first stanza begins like this:
|
Tell me the word that I loved to listen to, |
Tell me the tales |
Long march
The Long March ( Chinese : 长征 / 長征, Pinyin : Chángzhēng ) is the central heroic myth of the Communist Party of China and was a military retreat of the armed forces of the Communist Party of China in 1934/35 to avoid being encircled by the Chiang Kai-shek army to free. They covered 12,400 kilometers. Only 10 percent of the 90,000 people who embarked on the Long March from the Jiangxi Soviet reached their destination.
Based on this, Rudi Dutschke spread the slogan of the march through the institutions in 1967 as a long-term perspective of the student protest movement:
- “ Today, permanent revolutionaries, not talkers (the revolutionary discussion has meanwhile been unmasked by us as a substitute for practical work), who systematically upset the shop in the factories, in the large farms, in the armed forces, in the state bureaucracy, would be messed up by all wage earners to be completely accepted ... The 'messing up the shop' just means supporting the wage earners and others more, learning from them to break out new revolutionary factions. The permanent revolutionaries can be thrown out again and again, repeatedly penetrate new institutions: that is the long march through the institutions. "
L'art pour l'art
The French phrase L'art pour l'art (“ The art for art ”, meaning: “ Art for art's sake ”) has the meaning: to do something for the sake of the thing itself, without any ulterior motive for any benefit.
The phrase was the slogan of a French art theory of the 19th century. It is unclear who first coined the phrase; called Theophile Gautier and Victor Cousin .
The sociologist Georg Simmel writes in his art-historical consideration under the heading L'art pour l'art :
- “ Carried by and sustaining this whole, art remains that world for itself, as the L'art pour l'art proclaims it, although and because its deeper interpretation la vie pour l'art and l'art pour la vie disclosed. "
The poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem entitled L'art pour l'art , which reads as follows:
- “ The buzzing of a startled sparrow
inspires Korf to an art form that
consists only of looks, expressions and gestures
. One comes with apparatus
to record it; but v. Korf
'no longer remembers the work', no longer remembers any work
on the occasion of an 'excited sparrow'. "
Let the dead bury their dead!
This rigorous request comes from the Gospel according to Matthew . There a follower of Jesus who wants to follow him asks to be allowed to bury his father first. But Jesus urges him to follow unconditionally:
- " 21 Another of his disciples said to him, Lord, allow me to go and bury my father first. 22 But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead. "
Pastor Gundula Döring says on NDR about this passage from the Bible:
- “ For Jesus, the man's 'first' is an excuse. He had promised to go with Jesus. But suddenly he flees into other necessities. It is the escape from the situation. In this request of the man 'Let me first ...' there is also a 'not yet'. "
So it is not a general or moral appeal, but a word in a specific situation.
The quote from the Bible is also used in other contexts:
- “ 'Let the dead bury their dead': Why Russia does not want to know about Soviet mass crimes. "
Get your money back!
This saying goes back to a passage in the novel Satiricon by the Roman writer C. Petronius. There it says:
- “ Iam scies, patrem tuum mercedes perdidisse. "
- “ You will already notice that your father spent the apprenticeship money in vain. "
The phrase is also common in the form of “get your school fees back ”.
Let the children come to me.
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In the Gospel of Matthew it is reported that people brought their children to Jesus to be laid on them by hand:
- “ 13 Little children were brought to him that he might put his hands on them and pray. But the disciples drove on them. 14 But Jesus said, Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God. "
The motif was a popular motif in Christian art. Representations of this topic are available from:
Let the little children come to me was Uhde's first painting with a Christian theme and was both rejected and celebrated because Uhde had moved the scene into his presence. Susanna Partsch writes about this picture:
- “ A barefoot Christ, wrapped in a long blue robe, sits on a wooden chair in the hall of a Low German farmhouse. Children from the lower classes of the people have gathered around him, one of them has hidden himself in his lap, another extends his hand and looks him in the eyes with a pious expression. "
The picture brought Uhde his first major success. In 1884 alone, over 10,000 photographs were sold. Art critics, however, complained about the unattractive Christ and about the " shaggy and dirty children ". However, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph was moved to tears by the picture. However, representatives of the churches protested against the " poor people-Christ " and the Christian Kunstblatt criticized Uhdes Christ as "a man of the sad figure with the stupid face ".
Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo about Uhde's picture:
- “ I can have a Santa like that at Uhde's school - the school is otherwise pretty nice! - don't do well. Uhde ... did it because the good citizens of the country where he lives demand a subject and something 'conventional' to think about and because otherwise he would be hungry. "
Let go of all hope!
From Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia" ( Divine Comedy ) come some winged words. The best known is the saying that stands above the entrance to the inferno , hell:
- “ Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch 'entrate! "
- " Let go of all hope when you enter.! "
Dante's Hell lies in the interior of the northern hemisphere and is the seat of Lucifer.
- “ Through me one goes into the city of mourning,
through me one goes into eternal pain,
through me one goes to the lost people.
Justice drove my high creator,
the omnipotence of God created me, the
highest wisdom and the first love
There was no created thing before me,
only eternal, and I must last forever.
Leave all hope when you come. "- (Inscription on the gate to hell, third chant)
This warning is now above the entrance to Italian football stadiums and is intended to deter the visiting team.
Let a hundred flowers bloom!
With this slogan Mao Zedong started the Hundred Flower Movement in 1956 :
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools compete!
「百花齊放 ， 百家爭鳴。」
Bǎihuā qífàng, bǎijiā zhēngmíng.
The Hundred Schools (meant as "many" schools) was indicative of the Warring States Period when there were many competing schools of philosophy. However, the Warring States Period was also a heyday of Chinese philosophy. In an atmosphere in which the princely houses competed for power and ideas, many thinkers moved from state to state in the hope of finding a ruler who would like their ideas. Many of these philosophers left works that are still the subject of Classical Chinese in Chinese schools today.
Mao first used this famous phrase in a private speech to a group of party leaders. In it he called on the people to express themselves critically. However, when the movement threatened to get out of hand, it was massively suppressed by the communist party.
Let stout men be around me.
Gaius Iulius Caesar says in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar :
- “ Let stout men be around me, / with smooth heads and who sleep well at night. "
- "Let me have men about me that are fat; / Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o 'nights: "
Why does Caesar want fat men around him? Because they do not seem as restless and dangerous to him as Gaius Cassius , who was considered the driving force behind the conspiracy against Caesar:
- “ The Cassius there has a hollow look. / He thinks too much. The people are dangerous! "
- “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. "
Last, not least
This is a Shakespeare quote and means “ last in the order, but not the least important ” in German. In the drama Julius Caesar Marcus Antonius says these words to Trebonius:
"Though last, not least in love"
"Last, but not the last in my heart"
Something similar occurs in the play King Lear , where the king says to his youngest daughter:
"Although our last, not least"
"Although our last, not the least"
Laudator temporis acti
This Latin expression with the meaning " eulogists of a bygone era " comes from the works of the Roman poet Horace , who criticized " the old man is an eulogist of the past ":
- " Multa senem circumueniunt incommoda, uel quod
quaerit et inuentis miser abstinet ac scheduled uti,
uel quod res omnis timide gelideque ministrat,
dilator, spe longus, iners auidusque futuri,
difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti
se puero, castigator censorque minorum. "
This describes someone who claims that everything was better in the past.
A somewhat free translation is " romance of a bygone era ". A counterpart is laudator sui temporis , eulogy of his time.
Le style, c'est l'homme.
This French sentence ( the style is man ) comes from the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon , who said in his inaugural address at the Académie française in 1753 :
- “ Le style est l'homme même. "
- " The style is the person himself. "
The quote expresses that in the style of an artist, his individuality becomes clear.
Live how when you die you will wish you had lived.
This maxim can be found in the song Vom Tode from the spiritual odes and songs of the pietistic writer Christian Fürchtegott Gellert . The second verse of this song begins with this maxim:
- “ Live as you will, when you die,
wish to have lived.
Goods that you acquire here,
dignities that people have given you;
Nothing will please you in death;
These goods are not yours. "
The thought expressed therein is already contained in the self-contemplations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius , who formulated it as follows:
- “ As you wish you lived when you passed away, you can already live now. "
Live individually and free as a tree.
The verses often quoted in Germany come from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet :
- “ Life individually and freely like a tree,
brotherly and together like a forest
that is our longing. "
In German, this last verse from Davet (invitation), one of Hikmet's most famous poems, became known among others through Hannes Wader :
- “ Live individually and free
like a tree and at the
same time fraternal like a forest,
this longing is old. " - “ Yaşamak bir ağaç gibi
tek ve hür ve bir orman gibi
kardeşçesine,
bu hasret bizim. "
Life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness
This central statement of the United States Declaration of Independence reads in context as follows:
- " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "
- “ We believe these truths to be established, that all human beings were created equal, that they were endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. "
The pursuit of happiness ( The Pursuit of Happyness ) is an American drama from 2006. The film tells of a self-employed salesman who is not particularly successful and is abandoned by his wife. However, he brings his son back to him because he doesn't want him to grow up without a father. Although he also becomes homeless, he continues to do both of his jobs and ends up being successful.
A quote from this film refers to the Declaration of Independence, most of which was written by Thomas Jefferson :
- “ At that very moment I thought of Thomas Jeffersen, the Declaration of Independence and our right to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. And I still remember thinking, 'How did he know that he had to put the word strive in there?' "
Live and let live
This expression can be found in Friedrich Schiller's drama Wallenstein's camp , where the first hunter made the following comments about the general Tilly:
- “ And it just didn't get out of his coffers,
His saying was: live and let live. "
This quote much used has the meaning of tolerance be and is found in different contexts again:
- " Parasites - Live and Let Live " (traveling exhibition)
- “ Live and let live. Active euthanasia and suicide cannot be a way out. "
- The title of the James Bond novel " Live and let die" (Original: Live and let die) from 1954 as well as the film of the same name from 1973 and the very successful title song of the same name for the film are also derived from the quote by Paul McCartney .
live like God in France
There are various statements that try to explain the origin of the phrase "(live) like God in France ". But they contradict each other or can be refuted by even earlier evidence. The exact origin is therefore unknown.
Lick my ass!
This expression became popular through Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand .
The imperial knight Götz von Berlichingen attacks rich merchants and is banned by Emperor Maximilian I ; He is being hunted down and he holed up in his castle - at this point in the drama is the famous Götz quote , which refers to a captain and not to the emperor:
- "Surrender to me! On mercy and disgrace! Who are you talking to! Am I a robber! Tell your captain: As always, I have due respect for your Imperial Majesty. But he, tell him, he can lick my ass! "
However, the origin of this saying comes from the Middle Ages. Bare female butts were attached to city gates, apparently suggesting licking. This was supposed to deter evil spirits.
The so-called Swabian greeting probably goes back to an old nudity and defense magic. If you show demons, witches or personal enemies your bare buttocks, they cannot harm you.
If you don't interpret it, put something underneath!
The saying comes from the second book of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Zahmen Xenien and castigates the carelessness in the interpretation of texts.
Günter Hirsch , the President of the Federal Court of Justice, used this quote from Goethe in December 2003 in his speech on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court:
- “ Finding the right balance between obeying the law and correcting the law for the sake of justice is the true art of the judge. Savigny already pointed out that this art - like any other - ultimately cannot be communicated or acquired through rules. However, too much 'artistic freedom' in the interpretation and further development of the law very quickly comes up against constitutional limits. That is why Goethe - whose profession was jurisprudence - is to be understood more ironically than appreciatively when he advises lawyers in the tame Xenien:
'Be fresh and lively when laying out!
If you don't interpret it, put something underneath! ' "
Years of apprenticeship of feeling
Apprenticeship Years of Feeling is the German title of Gustave Flaubert's novel L'Education sentimentale. Histoire d'un jeune homme ( The Education of Emotions ) from 1869.
The novel describes the life of a young man during the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second Empire in France and his love for an older woman. Many of the protagonist's experiences, including the romantic passion, are based on Flaubert's own life. The characters are characterized by moodiness and selfishness.
Today the title often serves as a metaphor for the inner development of a person.
First class funeral service
In his autobiography, the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck explained thoughts and memories in connection with his dismissal from the office of Chancellor by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890:
- “ … On March 29th, I left Berlin under the pressure of hasty evacuation of my apartment and under the military decorations ordered by the emperor in the train station, which I could rightly call a first-class funeral . "
Thoughts live easily together, but things collide hard in space.
In Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Wallenstein's Death (II, 2), Wallenstein replied to Max Piccolomini's condemnation of Wallenstein's attitude towards Emperor Charles V with these words :
- “ The world is narrow and the brain is wide.
Thoughts dwell easily together,
But things collide hard in space;
Where one takes place, the other must move;
whoever does not want to be expelled must expel;
There is a quarrel and only strength wins. "
In the Süddeutsche Zeitung it says under the heading You can build on these phrases :
- “ Where the popular meets the civic, the verses are more likely to be quoted in the sense of Wallenstein, who opposes the young virtuoso Max Piccolomini with the realism of the mature cynic: There is plenty of room in the head for lofty ideas and ideals, but in the realm of purposes the agent is dealing with hard facts and irreconcilable antinomies. "
Suffer and avoid!
The Roman writer Aulus Gellius passed this maxim on in his collection of essays Noctes Atticae ( Attic Nights ). It originally comes from the Greek philosopher Epictetus , who taught frugality and intellectual independence from external difficulties. As an example of exemplary patience and virtue, Gregor von Nazianzen gives the episode of Epictet's violently broken leg, which he allegedly owed to the cruelty of his master.
Martin Luther says in his table discussions on the subject of patience :
- “ The best virtue is patience, highly recommended by the Holy Spirit in scripture and tested in the experience of the cross. Although the philosophers also praise them very much, they neither know their essential basis nor can they imagine themselves in the will and help of God. Epictetus said very nicely: suffer and avoid! "
Sufferings are lessons.
This sentence goes back to the fable The Dog and the Cook by the Greek fable poet Aesop and reads in Greek:
- " Παθήματα μαθήματα. "
- Pathēmata mathēmata.
The historian Herodotus has the overthrown old Lydian king Kroisos say in his histories about the young Persian king Cyrus :
- “ My sufferings, unpleasant as they were, have become lessons for me. "
Obviously, this is followed by the moral of the Aesopian fable The Dog and the Cook : " ... that in many cases people's sufferings become lessons ". In this fable, the house dog has invited a strange dog and leads him into the kitchen. But since the cook doesn't know the strange dog, he beats him out.
The Greek poet Aeschylus expresses a similar idea in his play Agamemnon .
Softly my songs plead to you through the night.
With these words, the song begins serenaded by Ludwig Rellstab that by Franz Schubert was known setting. The first stanza goes like this:
- “ Softly my songs plead
to you through the night;
Down into the silent grove,
darling, come to me! "
Quiet, quiet, pious way.
With this verse begins an aria by Agathe, the daughter of the forester, in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz , the libretto of which Johann Friedrich Kind wrote:
- “ Quiet, quiet, pious way,
soar up to the star circles.
Song, sound! Celebrating
my prayer to the hall of heaven! - "
Let it snow.
This is the beginning of a famous Christmas carol by Eduard Ebel , the first stanza of which begins with the following verses:
- “ The snow trickles softly,
the lake is still and rigid.
The forest shines for Christmas.
Rejoice, the Christ Child is coming soon. "
A joking modification of the first line is " Lime trickles ", which alludes to the incipient "calcification", the calcium deposits in the brain and other organs of living beings in their aging process.
Softly pulls through my mind.
These words come from song No. 6 in Heinrich Heine's New Spring cycle , which was also made famous through the setting by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . The first stanza reads as follows:
- “ Softly
sweet peal pulls through my mind .
Sound a little spring song,
sound out into the distance. "
A joke variation goes like this:
- “ A kitty moves quietly through my mind
:
If you pull its tail,
it makes a grimace. "
Learn to suffer without complaining.
The saying goes to the German Emperor Friedrich III, who died after a short reign . attributed. He is said to have given his son Wilhelm II the following lesson on his journey through life:
- " Learn to suffer without complaining, that's the only thing I can teach you ."
When Friedrich III. On March 9, 1888, Wilhelm I succeeded him as German Emperor and King of Prussia, he was already so seriously ill with throat cancer that he could no longer speak. The reign of the "99-day emperor" ended after three months with his death. With the accession of his son Wilhelm II to the throne, 1888 became the three emperor year .
The rhetorical reversal of this saying is also widespread:
- “ Learn to complain without suffering. "
- use
- “ Learn to be silent without bursting. "
Learn, learn, learn again
The saying is attributed to the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . It stands for the necessity of lifelong learning in order to contribute to the success of social progress and in this sense was u. a. Immortalized on the GDR medal “For very good performance in socialist professional competition” .
Lenin may have modified the 17th century war motto of money, money and more money .
Learning without thinking is free, thinking without learning is dangerous.
This statement comes from the analects of the Chinese philosopher Confucius and reads in classical Chinese:
- 「學 而不 思 則 惘 ， 思 而不 學 則 殆。」
- " Xué ér bù sī zé wǎng, sī ér bù xué zé dài. "
This realization can be seen in connection with the first sentence of the analects, which also illustrates the high value the subject of learning had for Confucius.
- 「學 而 時 習 之 ， 不 亦 悅 乎？。」
- " Xué ér shí xí zhī, bù yì yuè hū? "
- “ Learning and using it from time to time, isn't that a great joy? "
Confucius gives high priority to learning. It is the preferred means of molding the noble. It is essential that education is inextricably linked with the moral demand for self-cultivation (XIV, 24):
- " Confucius said:" In ancient times, people learned to perfect himself; today, on the other hand, one learns in order to apply to others. «“
However, for Confucius there is a difference between "dead knowledge" and true education (XIII, 5):
- " Confucius said," Suppose someone can recite all three hundred pieces of the 'Book of Songs' by heart. But if he is given a responsible job, he will fail. ... Such a person has learned a lot, but what use is it? " "
Learn history!
This saying (in full: “Learn history, Mr. Reporter!”) Is a very well-known and often quoted saying in Austria that the then Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Austrian Chancellor from 1970 to 1983) annoyed a reporter during an interview Head threw after he got into arguments on the subject of the AKH scandal .
Reading means thinking with someone else's head instead of your own.
This statement comes from the second chapter of the Parerga and Paralipomena , the work in which the aphorisms on the wisdom of life of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer are contained.
Schopenhauer further writes:
- " Now, however, nothing is more detrimental to one's own thinking, from which a coherent whole, if not a strictly closed system, tries to develop, than an excessively strong influx of foreign thoughts through constant reading; because these, each sprouting from a different spirit, belonging to a different system, bearing a different color, never flow together by themselves into a whole of thought, knowledge, insight and conviction, but rather cause a slight Babylonian confusion of language in the head and the spirit has overflowed with them, now all behave with clear insight and thus almost disorganize him. "
Let the sunshine in.
Let the sunshine in ... is the English title of a song ( Let the sunshine in ... ) from the musical Hair .
The chorus begins as follows:
- " Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sun shine in ... "
- “ Let the sun
let the sunshine into you! "
Let's get ready to rumble.
Brooklyn last exit
Last Exit Brooklyn is the German title of the 1957 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn by the American writer Hubert Selby and the title of the film adaptation by Uli Edel . The ambiguous title refers to both a junction and the hopeless existence of the residents of the Brooklyn slums .
The draftsman Chlodwig Poth varied the English title and called a series of cartoons about the Frankfurt district of Sossenheim : " Last Exit Sossenheim ". Poth documented the wild mix of architecture in this series of pictures, which he published monthly in the satirical magazine Titanic from 1990 until his death in 2004 .
Last year in Marienbad
Last year in Marienbad is the German title of Alain Resnais' Franco-Italian film L'année derniére de Marienbad from 1960. In this film, a man in the corridors of a castle claims to be opposite a woman that she was in the Bohemian Marienbad a year ago to have met.
The quote is occasionally used as a reference to something in the past that is only vaguely present.
- " Last year in Klagenfurt "
- " Last year in Pisa "
Construction people
This turn can be found in the play Das Fest der Handwerker, which premiered in Berlin in 1828 . Funny painting from popular life in 1 act. Treated as Vaudeville by Louis Angely .
Today craftsmen on a construction site are usually referred to as "construction people".
Levver duad üs slav!
This Frisian battle cry with the meaning “ Better dead as a slave! "Comes from Detlev von Liliencron's ballad Pidder Lüng , whose first stanza reads as follows:
- " The bailiff from Tondern, Henning Pogwisch,
hits the oak table with his fist:
Today I'll drive over to Sylt
myself , And get myself interest and validity with my own hand.
And if I can't grasp the fishermen's taxes,
they should have noses and ears let,
and I scoff at your word:
Lewwer duad üs Slaav. "
The poem describes the resistance of the Frisian population, personalized in the figure of the Sylt fisherman Pidder Lüng, against Danish rule, for which Henning Pogwisch, bailiff of Tønder , stands.
Light off! Spot on!
The television presenter Ilja Richter announced the winner of the audience quiz in his television show Disco in the 1970s with the following words:
- " Lights out! Whoom! Spot on! Yes …! And here it is again, the absolute main winner ... "
To introduce this winner, the studio lighting was switched off completely and only a single white spotlight was pointed at him. The saying gained cult status and was often quoted by young people.
Astrid Hegenauer headlines her article in the Berliner Zeitung of November 23, 2003 on Ilja Richter's 50th birthday with the words “ Lights out! Spot on! "And explains that two days before his 30th birthday Richter turned off the light for 'Disco'" for good.
Light, air and sun
This term was coined in connection with the Athens Charter in the early 1930s and originally describes the demand for overcoming the restricted housing and urban development. This requirement shaped post-war European urban development for decades. Today the term is also used generally in connection with leisure and health offers, and with a health-oriented lifestyle.
City lights
City Lights is the German title of the American silent film City Lights by Charlie Chaplin from 1931. In the movie, the Tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl, he pretends to be a millionaire.
The film title is often quoted in relation to an illuminated city and its range of culture and nightlife:
- " The bright lights of the big city "
- " The bright lights of the big city "
- " Lights of a Big City "
Dear fatherland, may you be quiet.
This quote comes from the patriotic song Die Wacht am Rhein , which Max Schneckenburger composed in 1840:
- “ A call roars like thunder,
like the clang of swords and the crash of waves:
To the Rhine, to the Rhine, to the German Rhine,
Who wants to be the keeper of the river?
Dear fatherland, may you be calm,
The watch on the Rhine stands firm and true! "
The Watch on the Rhine was the most popular marching song of the Wilhelmine era. In this song the relationship to the so-called "hereditary enemy" France crystallizes . Despite the martial text, the song has a defensive character: The Rhine should only be defended against the French. There is no question of a shift of the German border to the west.
Love means never having to ask for forgiveness.
This sentence comes from Erich Segal's bestseller Love Story . In the film of the same name , Jennifer Cavilleri-Barrett, played by Ali MacGraw , says in the original:
- " Love means never having to say you're sorry. "
The film adaptation achieved cult status, as the film exactly met the attitude towards life of a generation. The famous key phrase of melodrama is that lovers do not have to ask for forgiveness because they are accepted for who they are and moreover can never do anything unforgivable.
For this much quoted sentence it says:
- “ 'Love means never having to ask for forgiveness' - countless viewers sobbed at this sentence in 1970. "
Love is just a word
Love is just a word is the title of a 1971 film based on a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel , which tells the tragic end of the love story between a 21-year-old schoolboy and a married woman.
The 21-year-old son of a corrupt industrialist falls in love with Verena, who is ten years his senior and is married to a much older banker who does business with his father. After a violent affair, the student commits suicide, while for Verena Lord love is " just a word ".
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- " Love is only a Ford. "
- “ Freedom is just a word. "
- “ Death is just a word. "(Book title by Anne Stuart)
Love is strong like death.
This sentence comes from the biblical song of songs :
- “ 5 Who is she who comes up from the desert and leans on her friend? I woke you under the apple tree; your mother has recovered, your mother who gave birth to you has recovered. 6 Put me as a seal on your heart and as a seal on your arm. For love is strong as death, and its zeal is firm as hell. Their embers are fiery, and the flame of the LORD, 7 so that many waters do not like to extinguish love, nor the rivers drown them. If someone wanted to give everything in his house for love, it was all for nothing. "
In a consideration on the website of the Diocese of Trier it says about this Bible quote:
- “ On the one hand, as 'strong as death', an energy like a conflagration that cannot be extinguished by a flood, a passion like the underworld that reveals nothing of what it once devoured. On the other hand, so weak, fragile, decrepit, short-lived and ephemeral, once you make sure that every third marriage in our country breaks up when love ails, fades away and dies? "
By the French writer Guy de Maupassant , the novel Strong as Death and the extension of the sentence:
- “ Because love is as strong as death and passion as irresistible as the realm of the dead. "
Love is blind.
This phrase is used to express that someone who is in love does not notice the weaknesses of the loved one.
The phrase goes back to Plato's dialogue The Laws ( Nomoi ) , where it says:
- “ The lover becomes blind to the object of his love. "
This remark, however, relates to excessive self-love.
The entertainer Jürgen von der Lippe transforms the quote in a song like this:
- “ Love makes you blind, love makes you lame,
love makes you deaf, love makes you dumb,
and sometimes love also makes dudududu dududu stupid. "
Better to be first here than second in Rome.
The Greek writer Plutarch reports in his biography of Caesar that Gaius Iulius Caesar met himself in the year 61 BC. BC was on the way to Spain to take up his governorship there. On the trip he passed a miserable mountain village. When one of his companions jokingly remarked that there were power struggles here too, Caesar sighed in Greek:
- " Παρὰ τούτοις εἶναι μᾶλλον πρῶτος ἢ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις δεύτερος. "
- Para toutois einai mallon prōtos ē para Rhōmaiois deuteros.
- “ Better to be the first here than the second in Rome. "
This anecdote possibly relates to Aups , a French commune in the Var department with around 1,900 inhabitants today.
Better to end with horror
The saying "Better to end with horror than horror without end" goes back to Psalm 73:19, in which it says of the "wicked":
- “ How do they suddenly come to nothing! They perish and end in horror. "
In 1809 the Prussian officer Ferdinand von Schill tried to trigger a general uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte with his hussar regiment and shouted these words to a crowd that had followed him.
Today these words are used to describe a bad outcome of something. Today one is expressing one's determination to bring something to a quick end, even if one has to accept major disadvantages in the process.
Better to have five percent inflation than five percent unemployment
This statement is a shortened statement by the then German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt from 1972, which was quoted in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as follows:
- “It seems to me that the German people - to put it bluntly - can tolerate a 5% rise in prices rather than 5% unemployment. "
Schmidt was then completely surprised by the huge media coverage. His testimony was cannibalized by political opponents during the 1974 election.
Since the 1950s, in a naive interpretation of the British economist was John Maynard Keynes spreading the idea that higher inflation could help the unemployment lower. If wages rise more slowly than the inflation rate, nominal wages would continue to grow, but real wages would decrease, which would dissolve wage rigidity (so-called Phillips curve ).
Better late than never
This phrase comes from the writings of the Roman historian Titus Livius , in which it reads as follows:
- " Potius sero, quam nunquam "
This phrase is often quoted in French:
- “ Mieux vaut tard, que jamais. "
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- “ Better late than not at all. "
- " Test report on Deutsche Bahn AG. ... rather late than never ... "
- “ Better late than early? "
Better dead than red
Better red than dead (English: Better dead than red ) was an anti-Communist slogan in Germany during the Second World War, the USA and other countries during the Cold War.
According to Georg Büchmann's collection of quotations, Winged Words , the slogan goes back to a word in the apocryphal book Jesus Sirach (Sir 10.10 EU), where it says:
- " King today, dead tomorrow. "
In the post-war period, in the course of the rearmament debates, the slogan was changed into the slogan " Better red than dead ".
I would rather cross the African continent again than write another book.
These words were written by the Scottish missionary David Livingstone in the preface to his book Missionary Travels ( mission trips ) in English:
- " I would rather cross the African continent again than undertake to write another book. "
Livingstone explored large parts of inner Africa and thus laid one of the foundations of the race for Africa . His expeditions, continued by Henry Morton Stanley , led to desires among the European nations.
Dissolute shamrock
This expression comes from the title of Johann Nestroy's Zauberposse Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus or Das liederliche Kleeblatt . The shamrocks are the craftsmen Knieriem, Zwirn and Leim.
In colloquial language, three people who belong together are referred to as a " dissolute shamrock " if, for example, one disapproves of their way of life or their sloppy work.
For Fritz Reuter , the dissolute shamrock is composed of the tailor thread, the cobbler Pech and the carpenter glue.
Left melancholy
Left Melancholie is the title of an essay by the literary critic Walter Benjamin from 1931, in which he deals with Erich Kästner's collection of poems Ein Mann Giveinformation, published in 1930 . The title poem ends with the following verses:
- “ It's easy to explain in words.
I only do it because you want it to.
The year was beautiful and will not return.
And who is coming now? Goodbye I'm afraid. "
Benjamin criticizes the behavior of Kästner and other writers such as Kurt Tucholsky , who maintain a consumer society with their works , which they condemn politically and morally and which they even earn relatively well. Benjamin underlined his intention to injure himself in a letter with which he had sent the manuscript for publication in the Frankfurter Zeitung :
- " I hope the partridges in the world and stage swamp will go up in fright "
The background for Benjamin's criticism was Kästner's novel Fabian , in which Benjamin was portrayed as Labude who clings to the illusion that mankind can be ethically promoted.
You have to steer on the left!
This exclamation comes from the earlier often learned ballad Der Lotse by the writer Ludwig Giesebrecht , in which the hero sacrifices his life to save the life of others:
- “ Now it is shooting from the edge of the cliff!
'You have to steer on the left!' echoes a scream.
At the top the boat drifts ashore,
and the brig drives safely past. "
The exclamation that " saves a whole ship full of young life " was later often turned into a political one:
- "But we as Hamburg residents don't believe that a ship can be driven by shouting 'You have to steer left!' can be saved, and we are surprised that Professor Giesebrecht from Stettin did not know that too. "
Left where the heart is
Left, where the heart is, is the title of the autobiography of the socially critical writer Leonhard Frank from 1952. In it he expresses his belief in the new generation and a commitment to socialism . Frank escaped extradition to the Nazis during the Second World War in France shortly before the arrival of the German troops and fled on foot, by bike and by train together with other fellow sufferers through the German lines to Marseille .
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- " Left, where the pain is "
- “ Left, where the heart beats! "
The heart beats left is a book by Oskar Lafontaine published in 1999 in which he justified his resignation from the ministerial post.
Praise to folly
Praise of Folly (Latin: Encomium Moriae ) is a satirical work by the humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam .
In the introduction it says:
- “ Folly says:
Whatever the great bunch of me says - I know very well what a bad reputation folly has even among the worst fools - I still claim that I can amuse gods and people on my own. "
Erasmus lets the stultitia , the folly itself appear. In an ironic exaggeration in a speech he praises the world ruler folly, who with her daughters self-love, flattery, forgetfulness, laziness and lust has subjugated the world:
- “ It just feels so good to have no sense that mortals would rather ask for deliverance from all kinds of hardships than for deliverance from folly. "
The Praise of Folly became the most widely read work by Erasmus and was translated into many European languages during his lifetime.
The term lives on to this day, even if the word folly is no longer particularly common:
- “ A praise of folly? - Ursula Schneider's 'The Management of Ignorance' "
- " The Praise of the Folly of Judges "
- “ That would be out of place, like a deliberately misunderstood praise of folly. "
Loose from the stool
Loose from the stool is the casual expression that someone knows how to deal with something in a completely casual way.
This phrase found widespread use as the title of a series of episodic programs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It may be based on the shape of " loose from the box ", an allusion to the ease of a coachman who jumps off his box.
There are also variations such as:
- “ Better relaxed from the stool than hectic over the corner table. "
A headline says about the rock singer Udo Lindenberg :
- “ The eternal rocker, always relaxed from the stool. "
Logic of the heart
The expression logic of the heart comes from the French philosopher Blaise Pascal . In the records found after his death, he came to the conclusion that reason had shown man that belief in God was necessary. The knowledge of the existence of God obtained through faith must be supported by the love for God that comes from feeling, because " the heart has reasons that reason does not know ".
Lambert Schneider wrote about Pascal in 1946:
- “ It is true that it is often pointed out that 'the logic of the heart' is the main theme for Pascal, but it is all too easy to forget that the 'path of hate' is also to be found with him. This path shows itself not only with Pascal against his own ego by rejecting himself, but also against Descartes, against non-Christian religions, against 'desires' etc. "
If you let your feelings guide you in a certain situation, then you say with slight self-irony that you are following the logic of your heart.
Reward for fear
Wages of Fear (French: " Le salaire de la peur ") is a French film from 1951/52. This film is about four men taking on the transport of nitroglycerine for a lot of money and putting their lives to the rescue.
" Wages of fear " is also jokingly referred to in soldiers' language as military pay or a dangerous allowance, but the expression is also used in other areas:
- “ On the financial crisis: reward for fear. "
- "The reward of fear: flexibilization and criminalization in the new working society "
The wages of fear is also a song by Juliane Werding in which it says:
- "The reward of fear
Give everything for a few hours. The
reward of fear
Survive until morning "
A flawless democrat
The German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had certified the Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2004 on the ARD talk show Beckmann to be a flawless democrat . He was sharply criticized for this by the media, politics and human rights activists. Putin is accused of violating human rights and damaging Russian democracy. Since then, people in Germany have often spoken of “flawless democrats”, mostly ironically , when speaking of Vladimir Putin, and occasionally of his political friends in the Russian power apparatus.
Funny widow
The operetta The Merry Widow , premiered in 1905, made the composer Franz Lehár famous. The story of a young, rich widow and a fun-loving count is still played today. It tells of a count who for family reasons is not allowed to marry a country girl. But soon afterwards she marries a rich banker who dies on her wedding night. Both meet again at a ball. Now she is a rich widow, and a good match. She then sings:
- “ Oh, don't pretend!
I've heard it very often,
We widows, oh, we're in great demand!
Only when we poor widows are rich,
yes, then we have double worth! "
The title has taken on a life of its own and has become a joking name for a woman who is said to know how to use her independence after her husband's death. Marietta Piepenbrock writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about Gloria von Thurn und Taxis :
- “ In just one decade, the merry widow succeeds in transforming the TNT empire into one of the most imaginative dynasties in Europe. "
Luxury of your own opinion
This expression is attributed to the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , who used similar formulations in various speeches. Martin Burger writes:
- “ Luxury probably because it is difficult to stand by your own opinion. The more opinions are represented, the greater the risk that we will get confused. "
The social philosopher Oskar Negt is asked in an interview about the luxury of one's own opinion:
- “ Mr. Negt, some see it as a luxury to have your own opinion. The sociologist Oskar Negt has enjoyed this luxury all his life. "
Negt replies:
- “ This is not a luxury, but a necessity for survival. And the nice thing is: everyone can afford their own opinion. "
The following sentence comes from the Polish satirist Wieslaw Brudziński:
- “ Increase in luxury: own car, own villa, own opinion. "
In everyday life the quote is used as follows:
- “ More and more people are affording the luxury of their own opinion. "
- “In any case, I will continue to afford the luxury of my own opinion. "
- “ As a non-party mayor, I can publicly afford the luxury of my own opinion. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://susning.nu/buchmann/0521.html
- ^ Matthias Heine: La Grande Nation. In: welt.de . July 4, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.jcarreras.de/lyrics/pagliacci01.htm
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.mosapedia.de/wiki/index.php/Immer_nur_l%C3%A4elte_und_immer_vergn%C3%BCgt
- ↑ Quoted from https://web.archive.org/web/20050824083250/http://www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de/~upload/file_du_p248_1.pdf
- ^ Letters to Rudi D. with a foreword by Rudi Dutschke, Voltaire Verlag, Berlin, quotation taken from the foreword. According to: Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1980/1992): Human dignity can be touched. Essays and Polemics . Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
- ^ Georg Simmel : L'art pour l'art . Quoted from - ( Memento from September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Christian Morgenstern : L'art pour l'art . Quoted from L'art pour L'art on Wikisource
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- ↑ Gospel according to Matthew . 19.14. Quoted from http://www.bibel-online.net/buch/40.matthaeus/19.html#19,14
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- ↑ Dante Alighieri ; Gmelin, H. (transl.); The Divine Comedy . Volume I, dtv classic 1988; P. 35. [Canto 3, verses 1-9]
- ↑ Horace : Ars Poetica . 173. Quoted from Ars poetica on Wikisource
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- ^ Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein's camp . 6. Appearance
- ↑ Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein's death . II, 2. Quoted from http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8wllt10.txt
- ↑ You can build on these phrases. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 19, 2010, accessed May 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Martin Luther : Tischreden, 620
- ↑ Histories of Herodotus , 1.207
- ↑ Quoted from http://ingeb.org/Lieder/leisefle.html
- ↑ Johann Friedrich Kind : Der Freischütz
- ↑ Confucius : Analects , 2.15
- ^ Confucius: Conversations . Trans. V. Ralf Moritz, Reclam, Stuttgart 1998, p. 93.
- ^ Confucius: Conversations . Trans. V. Ralf Moritz, Reclam, Stuttgart 1998, p. 80.
- ↑ http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/296191/Lernen-Sie-Geschichte-Herr-Reporter
- ↑ Arthur Schopenhauer : Parerga and Paralipomena . II, Chapter 22, § 261
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.kellmann-stiftung.de/index.html?/beitrag/schop_haben.htm
- ↑ Quoted from Pidder Lüng on Wikisource
- ↑ THE PRESENTER AND ACTOR CELEBRATES ON THE MAIN Lights out! Spot on! Ilja Richter turns 50
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.stefanjacob.de/Geschichte/Unterseiten/Quellen.php?Multi=73
- ↑ http://www.freenet.de/freenet/kino/specials/filmreifes_wochenende/01.html
- ↑ Song of Songs . 8.6
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- ↑ Quoted from http://hitparade.ch/song/Juergen-von-der-Lippe/Liebe-macht-dumm-354585
- ↑ Duden editorial office: Duden general education. Famous quotes and sayings: you have to know them . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, September 17, 2014, ISBN 978-3-411-90768-7 , p. 125.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 28, 1972, p. 8
- ↑ Titus Livius : Ab urbe condita . IV.2.11
- ^ Fritz Reuter : The dissolute shamrock in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.savoy-truffle.de/lyrics/ein_mann_gibt_auskunft.html
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.zeit.de/2004/39/WalterBenjaminsGrausamkeit
- ↑ Quoted from - ( Memento of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.klassikerforum.de/index.php?topic=1337.5;wap2
- ↑ Erasmus of Rotterdam : In Praise of Folly . Quoted from - ( Memento from November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.philosophers-today.com: REVIEW Blaise Pascal ( memento of September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), on webarchive.org, accessed on June 9, 2014
- ↑ Quoted from lyricstime.com ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Franz Lehár : The merry widow . Act 1. Quoted from http://www.aria-database.com/translations/lustige_witwe.txt
- ↑ Gloria von Thurn and Taxis - Princess Elefant
- ↑ https://www.schuelerarbeit.de/fileadmin/schuelerarbeit/upload/Minations.pdf
- ↑ - ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )