Goethean Quotes & Sayings

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. — Allen Tate

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. — Bob Woodward

There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.' — Catfish Hunter

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection. — Frederick Lenz

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. — Nolan Bushnell

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude. — Elizabeth I

And he waited - as he always had - for life to come and find him. — Jess Walter

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible. — Tim Tebow

The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole. — Rudolf Steiner

I'm a ball of rage right now, James. Sitting isn't gonna do much. — Robin Benway