Jakob Von Gunten Quotes

If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions. ~ Robert Walser

So perfect and complete was my ignorance that it was impossible for me to know that I knew nothing. ~ Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen

but now we see that the subject controls the time of its environment. While we said before, "There can be no living subject without time," now we shall have to say, "Without a living subject, there can be no time. ~ Jakob Johann Von Uexkull

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. ~ Jakob Nielsen

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

September 15th. - This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea under acacias instead of too shady beeches; of wood fires in the library in chilly evenings. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nobody told me about him [my grandfather], and he died when I was six, and yet within the last year or two, that strange Indian summer of remembrance that comes to us in the leisured times when the children have been born and we have time to think, has made me know him perfectly well. It is rather an uncomfortable thought for the grown-up, and especially for the parent, but of a salutary and restraining nature, that though children may not understand what is said and done before them, and have no interest in it at the time, and though they may forget it at once and for years, yet these things that they have seen and heard and not noticed have after all impressed themselves for ever on their minds, and when they are men and women come crowing back with surprising and often painful distinctness, and away frisk all the cherished little illusions in flocks. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Sceptics are yet the most credulous. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wonder - the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge - promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing ... like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

With their profound thoughts and ideas, which they seek everywhere and project into everything, they make life harder for themselves than they should. Oh, that at long last you had the courage for once to yield yourselves to your impressions, to let yourselves be delighted, let yourselves be moved, let yourselves be elevated, yes, to let yourselves be taught and inspired and encouraged for something great; only do not always think that everything is vain if it is not some abstract thought or idea! ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains their primary and essential task. War, therefore, will endure to the end of history, as long as there is a multiplicity of states. ~ Heinrich Von Treitschke

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!' ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I understand that it takes patience, but there are also positive signs. H. U. von Balthasar, the theologian who probably has the greatest influence in the Catholic world for the moment, has handed down a very positive verdict on my book. Likewise, K. Lehmann, who is the theologian of the German Bishops' Conference. So I think that your thinking will gradually prevail, even if there is resistance and difficulties for the moment. ~ Scott Cowdell

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - frequently attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ Cinnamon Miles

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. ~ Josef Von Sternberg

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. ~ Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... a strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome. ~ Luis Von Ahn