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Ends Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
- Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should…
- Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has…
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
- The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
- Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought…
- From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
- In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other…
- Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my…
- In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
- People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and…
- Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their…
- The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
- The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
- Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load…
- When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
- Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
- Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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