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May Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 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 is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
- 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…
- It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
- 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…
- People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor…
- A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings…
- True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only…
- The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise…
- Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought…
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
- The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
- There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot…
- These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
- The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves…
- Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's…
- Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in…
- The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially…
- I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
- I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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