Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
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Die Welt ist eine Glocke, die einen Riß hat: sie klappert, aber klingt nicht.
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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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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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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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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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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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.