Famous quotes containing the words wolfgang von goethe, von goethe, notable, reports, wolfgang, von and/or goethe:
“A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“One needs only to get old to become milder; I don’t see anyone make a mistake I hadn’t also made.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Ingratitude is always a sign of weakness. I have never observed that accomplished people were ungrateful.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)