Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Quotes to Explore
-
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
-
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
-
I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
-
It's going to be a big topic of discussion.
-
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
-
Timing has a lot to with art.
-
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
-
I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
-
In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.
-
The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
-
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
-
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
-
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
-
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
-
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.
-
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
