Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.