Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
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• I've always wanted to make a record.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Always
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• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
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• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
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  • Magazines

• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
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• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Career
  • Want

• We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Father

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

  

  Aristotle
  • Love
  • Goodness
  • Forgiving

• One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Should
  • Achieve

• To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Men
  • Leith

• I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Style

• I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Food
  • Singing
  • Cat

• There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Computers
  • Typewriters
  • Guitar Playing

• Never seek illicit wealth.

  

  Confucius
  • Wealth
  • Seek
  • Illicit

• It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Important
  • Country

• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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