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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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc
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Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
