Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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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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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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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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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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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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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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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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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.