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

  

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

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• 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
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• It is really just having more of them.

  

  Brian Moynihan
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• 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
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• 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
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  • 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
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• 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
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• After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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• The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

  

  Isaac Newton
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• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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