Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Long

• I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Destiny
  • Interests
  • Significance

• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Cutting

• The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bible
  • Selfish
  • Desperately

• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

  

  John Aniston
  • Technology
  • Clicks

• A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Opinion

• I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Danger
  • Threat

• The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Chastity

• The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Firsts
  • Embarrassing

• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Command
  • Troops
  • God's Help

• The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Animals
  • Tradition
  • Protection

• God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Failure
  • Grow

• I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I think that's what we need more of: Asian-Americans on movie screens and TV screens where they're normalized. Where it's not about them being Asian or a person of color. It's just about them being a human. I think that's why sometimes when I see movies with an Asian family, but it's very stereotyped, I don't find that relatable.

  

  Arden Cho
  • Movie
  • Need
  • Asian

• The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enjoyment
  • Rejoice
  • Happiest Man