Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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The world remains ever the same.
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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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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 in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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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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Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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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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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.