Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

  

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• My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

  

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• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  

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• Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

  

  Earl Paulk
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• There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  

  Plutarch
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• Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  

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• O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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• Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Vain
  • Applause
  • Accommodates