Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
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Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
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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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Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.
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Faith is hidden household capital.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.