Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 16

This is the true measure of love When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. View quote
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. View quote
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Don't dissipate your powers strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. View quote
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It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. View quote
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If any 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. View quote
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art. View quote
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Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love, The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome. View quote
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. View quote
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe. View quote
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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)
Nothing is more revolting than the majority for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants. View quote
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Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. View quote
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. View quote
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. View quote
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. View quote
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He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew. View quote
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance. View quote
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He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey. View quote
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As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being. View quote
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
They abandon themselves credulously to every fanatic scoundrel who speaks to their baser qualities, confirms them in their vices, teaches them nationality means barbarism and isolation. View quote
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Talking is a necessity, listening is an art. View quote
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. View quote
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment. View quote
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