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Idea Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
- 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…
- Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
- Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
- The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever…
- Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
- When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
- When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
- Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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