Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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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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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.