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Cannot Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
- Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
- A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
- While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
- Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
- He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in…
- One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
- As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have…
- A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him,…
- Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back…
- Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common…
- I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
- The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
- Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
- What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
- One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
- It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example…
- I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
- He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
- Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
- Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit…
- I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
- The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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