Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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A world without love would be no world.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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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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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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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.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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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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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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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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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.