Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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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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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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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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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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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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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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Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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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 must be young to do great things.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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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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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.