Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

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• Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

  

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• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

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• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

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• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

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• I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

  

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• When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

  

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• When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

  

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• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

  

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• I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

  

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• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

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• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

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• Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

  

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• My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

  

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• Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

  

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• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  

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• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

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• My biggest fear is that we Unilever company at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest workers. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.

  

  Paul Polman
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• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

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• Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

  

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• later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

  

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• I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
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• Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Humans
  • Stupidity