Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
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• Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

  

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• I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

  

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• Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.

  

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• When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

  

  AJ McLean
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• Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.

  

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• When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Looks
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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
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• I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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• I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.

  

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• Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.

  

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• Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

  

  William R. Alger
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• Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.

  

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• The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.

  

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  • Soul
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• Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  • Seasons
  • Self-knowledge