Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Love
  • Best

• Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Government
  • Economy

• It is really just having more of them.

  

  Brian Moynihan
  • More
  • Really
  • Them

• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny
  • Aristocracy

• If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Pictures

• ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Danger
  • Falsehood

• The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Black
  • Purpose
  • Lawyer

• We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.

  

  Stephen Gaghan
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Tools

• The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • God

• I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.

  

  Hal Ketchum
  • Music
  • New England

• Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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