110+ Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes On Education, World And Physiognomy

Johann Kaspar Lavater was a German theologian and poet who lived during the 18th century. He is best known for his work in physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relation to character. Lavater's most famous work, Physiognomische Fragmente, was published in 1775 and was widely influential in the 19th century. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater on education, life, love.

Top 10 Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

1. Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
2. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
3. The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
4. What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
5. You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
6. Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
7. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
8. Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
9. Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
10. Sensibility is the power of woman.

Johann Kaspar Lavater Image Quotes

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Short Quotes

• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
• Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.
• Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
• Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
• How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
• Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
• Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
• Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
• The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Love

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of faces still is human. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

God protects those he loves from worthless reading. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About World

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Genius

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Friends

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

As your enemies and your friends, so are you — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Actions

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Words are the wings of actions. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Character

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Softness of smile indicates softness of character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater Famous Quotes And Sayings

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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 — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every man has his devilish minutes. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wisdom is the repose of the mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human? — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good-humor is always a success. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The conscience is more wise than science. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Half talent is no talent. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

A great passion has no partner. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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 honour, friendship, virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Life Lessons by Johann Kaspar Lavater

1. Johann Kaspar Lavater taught that we should strive to be our best selves, and that we should use our time and energy to develop our talents and pursue our goals.
2. He also believed that we should strive to be kind and compassionate to others, and that we should use our knowledge and experience to help those in need.
3. Finally, he taught that we should be mindful of our own mortality and use our time on earth to make a positive impact on the world.