Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 24

What is not fully understood is not possessed. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. View quote
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. View quote
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. View quote
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. View quote
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. View quote
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. View quote
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. View quote
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own. View quote
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. View quote
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Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. View quote
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it. View quote
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. View quote
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. View quote
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority. View quote
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On every mountain height Is rest. View quote
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. View quote
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. View quote
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual. View quote
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. View quote
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And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. View quote
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down. View quote
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Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life. View quote
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