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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Doubt grows with knowledge. View quote
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. View quote
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. View quote
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. View quote
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Personality is everything in art and poetry. View quote
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Man errs as long as he strives. View quote
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The Eternal Feminine draws us on. View quote
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Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. View quote
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Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited. View quote
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Life is too short to drink bad wine. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial. View quote
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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. View quote
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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. View quote
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You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere. View quote
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. View quote
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. View quote
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish. View quote
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. View quote
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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. View quote
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Few men have imagination enough for reality. View quote
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. View quote
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One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No." View quote
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Hatred is partial, but love is still more so. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Image
Occupation: German Writer
Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832
Quotes count: 710
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