Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
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Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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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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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.