Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

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• There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration
  • Forget

• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Enlightenment
  • Emergence
  • Immaturity

• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Athlete

• It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Achieve
  • Resources
  • Prosperity

• Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Winning
  • Ambition

• I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Guy
  • Violent
  • Odd

• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Flower
  • Guilty
  • Bride

• Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Drama
  • Freeways

• Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Knows

• Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Ignorance
  • Racism
  • Weakness

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

  

  Paul Heyse
  • Poetry
  • Dissertation
  • Philology

• My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Long
  • Mother

• It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sign
  • Trifles
  • Philology