All Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Nature
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Art
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