Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]
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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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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
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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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You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
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The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
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It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Faith is hidden household capital.