Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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 most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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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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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!