Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
-
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
-
Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
-
Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
-
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
-
It is really just having more of 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.
-
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.
-
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
-
You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
-
We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.
-
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
-
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
-
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.
-
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
