Winzinger Concrete Quotes & Sayings

One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of poets. Unlike Voltaire, he openly practiced esoteric disciplines, particularly alchemy. He wrote a famous verse about the Cathars, which translated says: "There were those who knew the Father. What became of them? Oh, they took them and burned them!" Goethe's chief work, of course, is his Faust. As noted in chapter 8, the figure of Faust was inspired by the image of the early Gnostic teacher Simon Magus, one of whose honorific names was Faustus. While in Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century play, — Stephan A. Hoeller

I want you to be happy ... to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you. — Abdu'l- Baha

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor — Michael Pollan

I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them. — Joe Taslim

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to. — Justin Townes Earle

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace. — Jane Silber

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines. — Jack McDevitt

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. — Barton Gellman