Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.

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The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.

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If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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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.

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Be above it Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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The act is all, the reputation nothing.

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

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Know thyself If I knew myself I would run away.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

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There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.

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