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A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whether the Koran is of eternityI don't ask about that
That it is the book of books
I believe it to be so as muslim's duty. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.
— Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What's done is yet to come.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
— Matthew Arnold
Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize;
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,
If you want to understand the poet,
You have to go to the Poet's home. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My worthy friend, gray are all theoriesAnd green alone Life's golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The lion's fierceness, Mild hart's swiftness, Italian fieriness, Northern steadiness.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there's a soul in each object,
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As long as on the earth endures his lifeTo deal with him have full and free permission;
Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do. Faust
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite ... a play of Shakespeare's.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Read this book ... but understand it's fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
— John Zelazny
Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
— Walter Kirn
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If I'm to listen to someone else's opinion, it must be put in a positive way; I have enough problematic speculations in my own head
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Must it be, that what makes for a man's happiness becomes the source for his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Colors are light's suffering and joy
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Grant me one hour on love's most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,
Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life's objective is life itself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nature has neither core nor skin: she's both at once outside and in.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." - Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
— George Steiner
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
— Rudolf Steiner
Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But I've got you, you're caught! For a half-hellhound like you are, Solomon's Key is what is called for.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it.The matter now seems turned about;
The Devil's in the house and can't get out. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
