QUOTES OF THE DAY 1-31-12

“Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No doubt you are right… there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men… did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation… when I consider all this… I am silent.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More Light!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe