Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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A world without love would be no world.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.