Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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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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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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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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When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
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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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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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A world without love would be no world.
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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube