Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 20

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. View quote
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Where there are no women there are no good manners. View quote
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All our knowledge is symbolic. View quote
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. View quote
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up. View quote
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man. View quote
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. View quote
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. View quote
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued. View quote
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is delivery that makes the orators success. View quote
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Every situation, every moment is of infinite worth for it is the representative of a whole eternity. View quote
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. View quote
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. View quote
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Lifes field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers. View quote
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. View quote
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In comradeship is danger countered best. View quote
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. View quote
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing. View quote
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. View quote
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. View quote
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality. View quote
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love. View quote
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