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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

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The world remains ever the same.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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 Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In art the best is good enough.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Age merely shows what children we remain.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happen...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All things are only transitory.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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 Every step of life shows much caution is required.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE On all the peaks lies peace.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficu...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Precaution is better than cure.
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 h...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Character develops itself in the stream of life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The coward only threatens when he is safe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher ...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffe...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. [Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuc...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Power is neither male nor female.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den T...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but fo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a de...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For the nature of women is closely allied to art
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works goo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You are aware of only one unrest;
Oh, never learn to know the other!
Two souls, alas, are ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das He...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebe...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich, Die T...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle [Ger...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were wh...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for th...
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...
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 ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything is hard before it is easy
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and --...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he k...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. [Ger., Die ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but f...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. [Ger., Auch die Kultur...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nic...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest?...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In all things it is better to hope than to despair
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer v...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err. [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
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 bless...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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