Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.
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I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
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I rarely think in words at all.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
