Where there is plenty of light there is strong shadow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “With useless learning curst…”
And here I am at last, a very fool, with useless learning curst, no wiser than at first. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “One must strive to become what one is.”
One must strive to become what one is. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “Oh how the spell before my sight…”
Oh how the spell before my sight brings nature’s hidden ways to light. See! All things with each other blending, each to each its being lending, all on each in turn depending, heavenly ministers descending, and again to heaven ascending, floating, mingling, interweaving… Can the heart of man embrace Illimitable Nature? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quote – “The great thing in this world…”
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Life is not a problem to be solved…”
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “A thinker erects an immense building…”
A thinker erects an immense building, a system, a system which embraces the whole of existence and world-history, etc. And if we contemplate his personal life, we discover to our astonishment this terrible and ludicrous fact, that he himself personally does not live in this immense high-vaulted palace, but in a barn alongside of it, or in a dog kennel, […]
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “He falls by his own hand…”
If he falls in this conflict, then he falls by his own hand, for physically and externally understood, I can fall by the hand of another, but spiritually there is only one who can destroy me, and that is myself. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Eternity alone understands about compassion…”
Eternity alone understands about compassion. If you therefore wish to learn to understand compassion, you must learn it from eternity. But if you wish to understand the eternal, then there must be quiet about you, while you absolutely center your attention on inwardness. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Love is open and accessible to all…”
Love is not an art like poetry, possible only to the few endowed for it, it is open and accessible to all. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
