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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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.
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I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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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.
