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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Virtues
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
4.3 · 62 votes · 155 reads
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Virtues
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
5.0 · 11 votes · 119 reads
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Virtues
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
4.2 · 14 votes · 199 reads
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Virtues
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
3.8 · 55 votes · 100 reads
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Society
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
3.9 · 26 votes · 98 reads
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Feelings
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
4.8 · 44 votes · 119 reads
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Time
The history of mankind is his character.
4.9 · 7 votes · 60 reads
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Thought and Reason
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
3.9 · 50 votes · 38 reads
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Virtues
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
5.0 · 31 votes · 7 reads
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
4.5 · 64 votes · 149 reads
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Thought and Reason
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
4.3 · 20 votes · 33 reads
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Feelings
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
3.6 · 15 votes · 175 reads
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Feelings
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
4.0 · 64 votes · 164 reads
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Virtues
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
3.8 · 44 votes · 157 reads
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Time
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
4.1 · 58 votes · 29 reads
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Various
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
3.6 · 19 votes · 161 reads
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
3.7 · 35 votes · 94 reads
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Art and Culture
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
3.5 · 25 votes · 33 reads
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Thought and Reason
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
3.8 · 54 votes · 48 reads
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Thought and Reason
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
3.8 · 17 votes · 111 reads
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Various
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
4.5 · 58 votes · 54 reads
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Virtues
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
3.3 · 21 votes · 107 reads
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Time
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
4.4 · 58 votes · 182 reads
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Nature
The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
4.5 · 55 votes · 62 reads
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Art and Culture
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 e
3.6 · 33 votes · 146 reads
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Nature
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
4.2 · 51 votes · 151 reads
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Virtues
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
3.8 · 51 votes · 198 reads
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Society
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
4.6 · 17 votes · 112 reads
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Time
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
4.0 · 36 votes · 163 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
4.0 · 59 votes · 41 reads
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Virtues
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
4.6 · 39 votes · 129 reads
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
4.2 · 22 votes · 20 reads
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Art and Culture
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
4.9 · 35 votes · 106 reads
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Nature
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
3.3 · 19 votes · 136 reads
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Thought and Reason
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
4.8 · 40 votes · 103 reads
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Virtues
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
4.6 · 46 votes · 199 reads
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Society
Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
3.9 · 17 votes · 132 reads
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Feelings
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
4.8 · 57 votes · 177 reads
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Various
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
4.8 · 49 votes · 7 reads
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Thought and Reason
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
3.1 · 62 votes · 99 reads
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