Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Myself Philosophy Reality
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Danger Solitude
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Character Laugh Man
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Purpose Slave World Yourself
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Book Mindset Reading Strong Thinking
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Achievement Important
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Ability Character People
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowledge Myself
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Beautiful Nature See Tolerance
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Imagination People Reality
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Action Ignorance Scare
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life One Liner Reflection
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
Everything transitory is but an image.
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One Liner Transformation
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Deep Philosophy Trust
Remember to live.
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Live One Liner Remember
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destroy Live Past
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Oneself Travel
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Danger Imagination Taste
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Word
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Choice Deep World

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