Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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Yes is like credit, No is like cash.
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What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
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Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although.
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I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
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Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems...
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
