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Masters Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
- All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
- The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
- All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now…
- Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
- The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
- Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
- None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by…
- Mastery is often taken for egotism.
- The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
- The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
- It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
- You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
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