Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Exception Oneself Ordinary
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Acceptance Deep Myself Worst
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Hands Himself Live
I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Heart Laughter Myself
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Character Easy Himself Judgement Man Yourself
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Believe Freedom Hope
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Literature One Liner Transformation
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Creation Past Philosophy
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Stupidity Worse
Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Action Doubt
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Game Ideas Start Win
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Ideal Love Marriage Reality
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Fear Freedom Greatness Human Live People Race Seek Time
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Love Perspective
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Happiness Himself Home Peace

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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