Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.