Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
silence style may
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
genius proportion vulgar
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
house enemy body
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
causes reason love-wisdom
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
wise men games
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
forgiveness embrace divine
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
believe book reading
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
communication genius charity
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
character home doors
Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.
character buttons dresses
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
grief character men
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God,--as his God, so he.
religious humble humility
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
men interest
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.