Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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There is strong shadow where there is much light.
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There is no patriotic art.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.