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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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
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A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
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The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.
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Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.
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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.
