Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
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I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
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Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.
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It clearly proves that diplomacy can win over the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
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At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistance Recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning – filled with admiration inspired by beauty – to find the continuation.
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Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
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I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.
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There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.
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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
