Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
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We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".
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Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.
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In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
