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Often Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
- Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,…
- If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom…
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
- Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my…
- Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
- Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next…
- Mastery is often taken for egotism.
- No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
- Mastery passes often for egotism.
- We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him…
- I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
- How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
- 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…
- Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange