Bosoms Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bosom Ger Bosoms Character Mighty Mighty Spirit Narrow Bosom Religion Spirit Spirit Narrow
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“The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Among all things that can be contemplated under the concavity of the heavens, nothing is seen that arouses the human spirit more, that ravishes… — Pierre Boaistuau Copy Share Image
“I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the… — William Langland Copy Share Image
“How may one describe enchantment? As he sang, his countenance softened, and without benefit of costume or any other artifice of the stage, the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image