Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
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Sing it not in mournful numbers.