Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Want
  • Play
  • Limitations

• Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Limitations

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Love
  • Travel
  • For Her

• It clearly proves that diplomacy can win over the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Proves
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Chemical Weapons

• The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Place
  • Limitations

• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Terms

• Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Questions
  • Limitations

• The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Infinite
  • Proves

• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Perfection
  • Limitations

• A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Happy
  • Limitations
  • Vague

• If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Exist
  • Angels
  • Proves

• I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Find
  • Limitations
  • Shylock

• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistance Recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning – filled with admiration inspired by beauty – to find the continuation.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Imagination
  • Limitations
  • Science fiction

• Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Life
  • Sacrifice
  • Honour

• I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • People
  • Limitations
  • Attracted

• What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Freedom
  • Accept
  • Limitations

• My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Limitations

• Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • World
  • Berlin
  • Startup

• In an unhealthy culture, each group believes that if their objectives trump the goals of the other groups, the company will be better off. In a healthy culture, all constituencies recognize the importance of balancing competing desires—they want to be heard, but they don’t have to win.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Culture
  • Goals
  • Win

• The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Limitations
  • Recognizing
  • Proves