Swiss poet & physiognomist (1741-1801)
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because to a clear why.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Can he love truth who can take a knave to his bosom?
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man