Quote by Goethe Johann-Wolfgang Download Open image ““Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe”” — Goethe Johann-Wolfgang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have… — William Hutchison Murray Copy Share
“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Goethe, the great nineteenth-century thinker, reportedly summed up, “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.… — W.H. Murray Copy Share Image
“When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. there was purification in punishment” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature,… — Goethe Johann-Wolfgang Copy Share Image
