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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Things unused burden and beset.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our virtues and view spring from one root.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
15General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For precisely when concepts fail one,Words are found at the right time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To make something you have to be something.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
— 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
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our foibles are really what make us lovable.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe