Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 3

However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. View quote
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. View quote
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. View quote
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Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others. View quote
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. View quote
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. View quote
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. View quote
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows. View quote
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. View quote
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One lives but once in the world. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. View quote
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. View quote
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Patriotism ruins history. View quote
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. View quote
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. View quote
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. View quote
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Common sense is the genius of humanity. View quote
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. View quote
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Life is the childhood of our immortality. View quote
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. View quote
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. View quote
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. View quote
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Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. View quote
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