Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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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.
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
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All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
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Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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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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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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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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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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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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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.