| "Know thyself"? If I knew myself I'd run away Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| "Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| A distracted existence leads us to no goal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
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| A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A man that all the world hates, there must be something about him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A man's errors are what make him amiable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| A person hears only what they understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A purpose you impart is no longer your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A thinking man’s greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| A useless life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Age merely shows what children we remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| As our inclinations, so our opinions Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Be generous with kindly words,especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Divide and rule, a sound Motto. Unite and lead, a better one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Doubt can only be removed by action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Each one sees what he carries in his heart Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Enjoy what you can, endure what you must Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every second is of infinite value. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everyone hears only what he understands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everything great and intelligent is in the minority Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Few people have the imagination for reality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| For the nature of women is closely allied to art Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Giving is the business of the rich. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| He who cannot love must learn to flatter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| He who has a firm will molds the world to himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| He who moves not forward, goes backward Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| I call architecture frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on The Foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| If you would create something, you must be something Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| In all things it is better to hope than to despair Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Life is the childhood of our immortality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Man's greatest achievement is astonishment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost?better you were never born Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Once you have missed the first buttonhole you'll never manage to button up Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Superstition is the poetry of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| The best Fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The coward threatens when he is safe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adages |
| The deed is everything, the glory naught. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The eternal in woman draws us on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The history of mankind is his character. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The man of understanding finds everything laughable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The man of understanding finds everything laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The people rate strength before everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sayings |
| The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| The right man is the one who seizes the moment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The society of women is the element of good manners. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The solution of every problem is another problem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Popular Quotes |
| The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations |
| The unnatural, that too is natural. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remarks |
| There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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