Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.