Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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We must be young to do great things.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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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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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.