Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes to Explore
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There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
Courtney Love -
All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
Martha Gellhorn -
There's nothing like confidence.
Mike Tyson -
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
Virginia Woolf -
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.
Albert Einstein -
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
Socrates
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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
Plutarch -
I can really only can record at home.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons -
I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Trevor Rabin Cinema -
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
Albert Camus -
If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.
Paul Lynde -
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
William J. H. Boetcker -
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
John Ruskin -
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Seneca the Younger -
Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.
Bob Proctor