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Up Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
- People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
- Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
- 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…
- The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
- Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously…
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
- Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
- The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are."…
- The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
- The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
- 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…
- Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
- Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes…
- Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
- If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as…
- We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can…
- If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
- Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
- If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A…
- 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,…
- What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
- A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes…
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