Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
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The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.