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Times 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…
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
- I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
- I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man…
- At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to…
- The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
- Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
- In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan