Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable


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JOHANN VON GOETHE
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
JOHANN G. FICHTE
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
JOHANN G. FICHTE
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether the...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
JOHANN G. SEUME
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy canno...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward ten...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati...
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To create something you must be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE