Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.