Quotes About Johann

Well, now I come to think of it, there was another Johann Diesbach, Johann Jacob Diesbach, a Berlin paint maker who invented the color Prussian blue, back in 1706. The whole Prussian army wore coats of Prussian blue until the Great War, when it moved over to field gray. At one time every Berlin schoolboy used to know the name of Johann Jacob Diesbach. So how about that, sir? How about Prussian blue?

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

What is sublime in Caesar's style is its carelessness.

Naught so insipid in the world I find As is a devil in despair.

You aren't a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.

The one exception, intriguingly, was Wikipedia, where the level of attention on topics has held steady.)

dollars for this single piece of fruit, and carried it into my room in the Very Charming Hanoi Hotel. Like any good foreigner who's read his health warnings

Irving didn't want this to be true—it contradicted his own published work—but he told me, "One thing I do pride myself on is looking at the data, and allowing my mind to be changed when the data's different than I expected.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Yes - this I hold to with devout insistence, Wisdom's last verdict goes to say: He only earns both freedom and existence Who must reconquer them each day.

Dust shall he eat, and greedily, like my celebrated serpent-cousin

After the play, he counts on playing cards, and he on a wild night in some girl's arms - why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools so sorely try the Muses' kindness

A part of that Power that, always wishing for Evil, only knows how to do Good. -Mephistopheles

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.

Kein Argument bringt mich so aus der Fessung, als wenn einer mit einem unbedeutenden Gemeinspruche angezogen kommt, wenn ich aus ganzem Herzen rede.

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.