Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Actor

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Same
  • Year
  • Jeans

• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Writer
  • Actress

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Fear
  • Stop
  • Natural

• Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Why

• The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Home

• How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

  

  Andrew Wight
  • Love
  • Destroy
  • Forgive

• Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

  

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Success

• The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • People
  • Heart
  • Understanding

• I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Presence