Top 100 Johann Eck Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Johann Eck

#1. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.

#2. Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

#3. The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Colors are light's suffering and joy

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

Johann Lamont

#11. Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Johann Georg Hamann

#12. The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#15. Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#16. There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#17. Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#19. Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#21. Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#22. I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#23. If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile ... so fair thou art.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#24. Every second is of infinite value.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?
'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#26. I have found among my papers a sheet ... in which I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#27. But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

Johann Bernoulli

#28. Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#29. Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#30. You're growling, poodle! Animal squealings 1230 Hardly suit the exalted feelings Filling my soul to overflowing. We're used to people ridiculing What they hardly understand, Grumbling at the good and the beautiful - It makes them so uncomfortable! Do dogs now emulate mankind?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#31. Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#32. Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

#33. Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#34. A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#35. There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#36. The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#37. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#38. Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#39. Create, artist, do not talk.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#40. The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#41. Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#42. The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#43. One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#44. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#45. Beware of a man of one book.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#46. You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture

Johann Gottfried Herder

#47. The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#48. Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#49. There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#50. While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#51. I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#52. We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#53. By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#54. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#55. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#56. The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Johann Lamont

#57. One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#58. Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#59. If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#60. How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#61. In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#62. A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#63. He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#64. No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#65. The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#66. Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#67. The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#68. Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#69. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#70. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#71. Nations could not return to their settled an independent life again without noticing that they had unconsciously adopted, and come to feel here and there previously unrecognized spiritual and intellectual needs.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#72. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#73. When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#74. Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#75. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#76. Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#77. He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#78. The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#79. This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#80. If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#81. Beauty can never really understand itself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#82. Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#83. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#84. Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#85. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#86. Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#87. Favour, as a symbol of sovereignty, is exercised by weak men.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#88. Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

Johann Sebastian Bach

#89. If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#90. What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#91. The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#92. If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Johann Most

#93. He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#94. Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe