“The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least." - Goethe” — Leo Babauta Copy Share Image
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.” — Nesta Tuomey Copy Share Image
“a man must take his children on trust—isn’t that what Goethe says?* CAPTAIN” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“Who rides so late through the night and wind? It's the father with his child; J.W. Goethe, Erlkönig/Erlking” — augelicht Copy Share Image
“Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he… — William R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Night knew no bounds. Goethe, on a moonlit evening in Naples, was “overwhelmed by a feeling of infinite space.” — A. Roger Ekirch Copy Share Image
“How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted," says Goethe's sorrowful young Werther. "How clearly I still… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage''.” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be… — Must Read Summaries Copy Share Image
“I was walking home from the theatre with Goethe this evening when we saw a small boy in a plum colored waistcoat.… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“So the restless traveler long at last for his native soil, finds his cottage in the arms of his wife, in the… — Goethe Wolfgang Copy Share Image
“The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign. The Sibyl,… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“In the sciences...if anyone advances anything new...people resist with all their might; they speak of the new view with contempt, as if… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
Beauty is primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterance… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
“My one regret is that my own knowledge of European literature at that time was too shallow to inform him that there… — Ben Watson Copy Share Image
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one… — W.H. Murray Copy Share Image
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
![“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ] to the living world. In the latter part of it, Erasmus Darwin , Goethe , and Lamarck took up the work more vigorously and with better qualifications. The question of special…” quote by Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/thomas-henry-huxley-14414_biological-evolution_in-the-beginning-of-the-eighteenth-centu_2375328.jpg)
