Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
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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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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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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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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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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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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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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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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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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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'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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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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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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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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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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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.
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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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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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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.