Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
character enemy
As your enemies and your friends, so are you
art honor enemy
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?
forgiving enemy sublime
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
house enemy body
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
men enemy good-man
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
doe calm belief
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
friendship cheating-men cheat
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
fit himself suffers
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
men
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
finds mistrust
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
action actions finds good incapable pleasure truly
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
yesterday today realizing
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
stars night
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
desire criminals ignoble
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.