Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.