Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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The solution of every problem is another problem.
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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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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
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Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.