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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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
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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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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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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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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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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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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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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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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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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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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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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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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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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.