Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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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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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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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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Much there is I can stand, and most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a god commands it. Only a few I find as repugnant as snakes and poison - These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and †.
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A world without love would be no world.
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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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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.