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Simple Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
- Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
- What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
- The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .
- You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,…
- Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited,…
- Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is…
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