Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  • Good
  • Today
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• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
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• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
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• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

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  • Time
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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
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• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Home
  • Water

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • You
  • Horse
  • Had

• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Tree
  • Perception
  • Act

• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Art

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

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  • True
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• When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Listen

• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  

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  • Life
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• I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

  

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  • Career

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Life
  • Themselves
  • Teenagers

• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Imagine
  • Existence