Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport 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
“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
“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
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as… — William Somerset Maugham 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
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited… — Robert Aickman 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
“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
“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
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least." - Goethe” — Leo Babauta Copy Share Image
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