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Humans Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
- Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
- Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
- 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…
- For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
- Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
- The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
- Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
- Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
- A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
- Common sense is the genius of humanity.
- The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
- Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much…
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly…
- To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every…
- 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…
- It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
- The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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