Johann Peter Eckermann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
â€Ž"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
No one man is superior to the game.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

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