Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
love know-yourself hated
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
time vehement cold
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
men people answers
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
war heart pedants
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
god stars book
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
curiosity littles may
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
pride air credentials
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
character men manners
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
love eye bears
True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
honesty men self
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.
greatness laughing mirth
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
real character greatness
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
god wise humble
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.