Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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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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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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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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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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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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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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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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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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One must be something to be able to do something.