Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Let there be truth between us.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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The solution of every problem is another problem.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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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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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.