Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Anybody
  • Any

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Driving
  • Never Forget

• You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Connection

• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity

• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think it's cool that people see me as so many different artistes but I think I'm a little different, yeah.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

  

  Wallace Smith Broecker
  • Climate
  • Beast
  • Sticks

• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Empathy
  • Investigation

• Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Book
  • History
  • Nature

• Archer got the distinct impression that he’d offended her. An offended whore?

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Impression
  • Archer
  • Distinct

• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Reason
  • Popular
  • Passions