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Makes Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his…
- What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
- It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
- Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the…
- I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my…
- Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
- The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
- Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
- The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
- 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…
- Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back…
- It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating…
- It is delivery that makes the orators success.
- A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
- Man's restlessness makes him strive.
- It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
- I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
- 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…
- What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
- It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
- The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels…
- What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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