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Category: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt grows with knowledge.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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