Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
humble anxiety secret
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.
humble pride may
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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.
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.
humble say-anything would-be
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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.