Иоганн Каспар Лафатер цитаты
Иоганн Каспар Лафатер
Дата рождения: 15. Ноябрь 1741
Дата смерти: 2. Январь 1801
Иоганн Каспар Ла́фатер — швейцарский писатель, богослов и поэт, писал на немецком языке. Заложил основы криминальной антропологии.
Цитаты Иоганн Каспар Лафатер
„Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed:“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Context: Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234
„Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788), No. 305
„Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788), No. 398
„Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788), No. 609
„If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788), No. 282
„Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4
„Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246
„The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290
