Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• 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.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Find

• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Art
  • Timing

• 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.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• 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.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Women
  • Business
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Presidential
  • Interview
  • Candidate

• The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Positive
  • Air Campaign

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • England

• GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Family
  • President
  • Corruption

• ...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • World
  • God
  • Rich

• Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of men saying, 'What? I'm looking at the baby.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Men
  • Baby
  • Washington

• I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study
  • Bible
  • Engaged

• Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Kind
  • Moral
  • Teaching

• We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poets
  • Scientists
  • Pantheists