Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Age
  • Own
  • Middle

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Middle

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Influence
  • Middle
  • Iran

• The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Middle

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Middle

• The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fighting
  • Worst
  • Middle

• Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is that by blowing up a satellite, you are creating more space debris which is a hazard to satellites and spacecraft in lower Earth orbit and if they had been a partner, you'd have to do an experiment, and if they had been a partner in the international space station, would they have really done that test? They would have really thought twice about creating that tension between the countries and potentially endangering a project that they were a part of.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Done
  • Earth

• It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore."

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Middle

• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  

  Anne Carson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Bows

• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Trying
  • May
  • Stop

• It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Difficult
  • Middle
  • Hindsight

• In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

  

  Aristotle
  • Find
  • Easy
  • Middle

• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • America
  • Dumb
  • Aggressive

• He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

  

  Erika Eleniak
  • Message
  • Gonna

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Middle
  • Philosophers
  • Station