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True 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…
- 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…
- Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
- Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
- Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
- 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…
- Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
- The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
- And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
- True happiness springs from moderation.
- What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily…
- As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
- The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
- There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
- A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
- True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
- Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
- I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
- This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us,…
- It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
- It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
- Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
- He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
- There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall…
- One without good friend is impoverished. A true friend is worth their weight in gold.. Good friends are the only family you get to choose...…
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