Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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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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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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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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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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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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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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One must be something to be able to do something.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.