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Doe Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
- Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
- Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is…
- No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
- Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not…
- The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it…
- If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
- He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
- Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
- He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
- The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
- On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
- He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
- There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does…
- Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
- The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able…
- What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both…
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
- Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
- One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
- One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
- 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…
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