Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
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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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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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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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Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.