Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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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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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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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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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.