Ebersberg Goethe Quotes & Sayings

I say to my congregants, If you believe in God, the best thing you can do for yourself is to suspend your belief for a while, because undoubtedly your God is too small and you must grow beyond that God. On the other hand, if you don't believe in God, your very disbelief is a stumbling block. Kick it away and place your faith in somehting more ennobling than disbelief. Take a flier. Expand your purview. Take a leap of faith. — Forrest Church

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur. — Albert Einstein

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so. — Idries Shah

Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism. — Esther Dyson

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide
laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course
it was striving against the stream. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Irritably, Piatt replied that "in ninety days the land would be whitened by tents." But Lincoln would not take the bait. He merely replied: "Well, we won't jump that ditch until we come to it," pausing before he added: "I must run the machine as I find it." Piatt left dinner wondering why the "strange and strangely gifted" Lincoln remained "so blind. — Harold Holzer

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. — Quentin Crisp

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness. — Hannah Arendt