Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What's it to you if I love you?
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
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It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
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The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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Was glänzt, ist für den Augenblick geboren;das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
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Every form correctly seen is beautiful.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.