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Call Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
- Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is…
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone…
- I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
- What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and…
- I call architecture frozen music.
- The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself,…
- If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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