Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A violet on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way. Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

  

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• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  

  Karel Capek
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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  

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• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  

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• Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

  

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• When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

  

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• Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

  

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• The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.

  

  Benjamin Constant
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• I begin to cut myself off in a digital shutdown at about 10 P.M. Phone, laptop, and iPad go down. If I'm at home, I'll leave my laptop and iPad in the living room. Those things don't go into my bedroom at all.

  

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• A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road.

  

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• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  

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• I try to do stuff that I'm more passionate about, more than just like being all over the place doing different sneakers.

  

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• Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

  

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• Friendship is the union of spirits.

  

  William Penn
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• Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

  

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• He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

  

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• Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

  

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• Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

  

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• Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

  

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• A violet on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way. Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lay
  • Violet
  • Shepherdess