#ran

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ago #answered #ignorant #men #questions

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#destiny #give #grants #order #our

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ignorance #more #nothing #see #terrible

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #biggest #biggest problem #create #every

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#objects #own #pictures #position #should

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fame #holy #modestly #rank #unworthy

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#even #evils #fate #fear #greatest

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#believes #breath #down #earth #emergency

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#fails #give #give and take #how #know