Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Pretty

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Book
  • History
  • Feeling

• I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Said
  • Word
  • Congress

• Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Want
  • Find
  • Young

• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Change

• In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Heart
  • Person

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

  

  Learned Hand
  • May

• Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Up
  • Golf

• I hate auditions.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Hate

• I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

  

  Edward Gorey
  • Serious

• On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Family
  • City
  • Missionary

• 'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Why
  • Light

• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  

  Daniel Hack Tuke
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Common

• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Discovered

• She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Laugh
  • Short
  • Friendly

• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Distance
  • Discovered
  • Philosopher