Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
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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.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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.
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It's going to be a big topic of discussion.
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This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
