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Greatest Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
- The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
- The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
- Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern…
- We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself…
- It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
- The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
- It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
- It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- 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…
- The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
- To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own…
- If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.…
- The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom…
- The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
- He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
- The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
- To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves,…
- A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with…
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
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- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon