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Man Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
- The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
- The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
- While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
- Man errs as long as he strives.
- No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
- Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
- Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
- Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
- To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
- 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…
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents…
- 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.
- If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
- A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
- 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…
- You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
- Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
- We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this…
- Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the…
- A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
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