Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Time is the soul of this world.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • God
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Prejudices
  • Appearances
  • Touchstone

• You have to arrive… the way the music has to feel.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Music

• The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.

  

  Beau Bokan Blessthefall
  • Country
  • Fans
  • Excited

• You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Knowing
  • Intention
  • Auditioning

• I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Mood
  • Changed

• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Age
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Philosophy
  • Medicine
  • Theology

• The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Laugh

• Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Waking

• It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Hope
  • Passion
  • Architect

• In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Relationship
  • Girlfriend
  • Version

• I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Dreams
  • Loses
  • Don't Think

• If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Don't Think
  • Foreign Language