Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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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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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.