Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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Each animal is an end in itself.