Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  

  Kaki King
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Moment

• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • inspirational

• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Ignore

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Small
  • Universe

• It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Why
  • High

• The history of science-especially physics-has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance...

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Experience
  • History
  • Science

• There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Hope

• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Germany
  • Misfortune
  • Poisoned

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Community
  • Singing
  • Drama

• I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Golf
  • Allegations
  • Moose

• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Universe
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