Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
