Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.