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Light Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night;…
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
- No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
- Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, -…
- Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
- The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
- Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
- Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His…
- It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating…
- Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
- Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
- A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way--…
- Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
- I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
- I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
- There is strong shadow where there is much light.
- Colors are light's suffering and joy
- Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
- There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall…
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- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann