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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

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General 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

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. — Simon McBurney

It is delivery that makes the orators success. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything is hard before it is easy. — J.W. Von Goethe?

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

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

Nothing is true, but that which is simple. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe