Commonplace Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “The universal subjugator, the commonplace.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Funny Inspirational Love Unity Universal
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
“We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.” — L J Smith Copy Share Image
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.” — Carolyn Chun Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
