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Rather Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most…
- People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
- Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
- One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
- How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
- There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings…
- My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something…
- I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.
- The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
- I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power.…
- Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit…
- How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov