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Either Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
- Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
- Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
- True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only…
- Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
- Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
- It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess…
- I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
- Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
- Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the…
- You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
- Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from…
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