"One glance, one word from you gives..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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“It will be! the mass is working clearer!Conviction gathers, truer, nearer!The mystery which for Man in Nature liesWe dare to test, by knowledge led;And that which she was wont to organizeWe crystallize, instead.”
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
“All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.”
More on Love
“One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.”
“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?”
“I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.”
More on Pleasure
“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
“In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.”
“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”