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 faces worst
The worst of faces still is human.
heart lovely tears
She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
men hatred hatred-and-love
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
true-friend good-love simple
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
love know-yourself hated
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
love eye bears
True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
causes reason love-wisdom
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
love differences order
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
love simple rose
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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.