Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Good
  • Man
  • Good Man

• Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Men
  • Truth

• Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

  

  Fanny Jackson Coppin
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Gods
  • Good Man

• It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

  

  Sophocles
  • Help
  • Task
  • Good Man

• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  

  Euripides
  • Hurt
  • Suffer
  • Good Man

• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  

  Socrates
  • Gentleman
  • Goodness
  • Cause

• Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Aspirations

• When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Young
  • Hopes
  • Realized

• Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Aspirations
  • Swaraj
  • Conscientiousness

• I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Boring
  • Aspirations
  • Growing Old

• The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ground
  • Good Man
  • Hallowed

• I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Good Man

• I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Guy
  • Changing
  • Aspirations

• If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.

  

  African Spir
  • Conditions
  • Aspirations
  • Self-Control

• When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Idea
  • Applications
  • Idiotic

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  

  Susanne Bier
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Healthy

• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  

  Red Smith
  • World
  • Way
  • Suffering

• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good Man
  • Aspirations
  • True Way