Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.