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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Above
#Purpose
#Serve
#World
#Your
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Believe
#Better
#Book
#I Can
#Life
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Against
#Even
#Some
#Way
#Will
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Believe
#Me
#My Own
#Opinions
#Own
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Fail
#Ideas
#Just
#Save
#Situation
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Level
#Person
#Places
#Praise
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Children
#Deceive
#Little
#Need
#Unlike
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Always
#Culture
#Degree
#Find
#Will
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Dead
#Hope
#Life
#Other
#Who
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Doing
#Done
#Happy
#He
#Who
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Aim
#Character
#Chief
#Everyone
#Ought
An unused life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Death
#Early
#Life
#Unused
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Ideal
#People
#Present
#Those
#Who
The world remains ever the same.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Ever
#Remains
#Same
#World
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Day
#Evening
#Find
#Time
#Will
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Born
#Man
#Performance
#Ten Years
#Woman
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Belief
#Dead
#He
#Who
#World
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Absent
#Opportunity
#Talk
#Well
#You
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Creation
#Importance
#Only
#Solitude
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Man
#Others
#Respect
#Right
#Thinking
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Answer
#Correct
#Kiss
#Like
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Earnest
#People
#Stand
#Thoughtful
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Miracles
#Mysteries
#Necessarily
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Knowing
#Men
#Other
#Self-Knowledge
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Be True
#Man
#Show
#Strength
#True
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Advantage
#Happens
#Own
#Person
#Who
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Creatures
#Dependent
#Last
#Made
Love can do much, but duty more.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Duty
#Love
#More
#Much
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Average
#Best
#Cannot
#Quality
#Taste
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Character
#Feel
#Great
#Little Things
The little man is still a man.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Little Man
#Little
#Man
#Still
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Believe
#Further
#Never
#Than
#Wish
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#More
#Myself
#Never
#Person
#True
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Appreciate
#Gain
#Never
#Noble
#Us
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Age
#Always
#Credit
#Never
#Science
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Ever
#Fully
#Know
#Learned
#Themselves
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Best
#Govern
#Government
#Us
#Which
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#After
#Art
#Greatest
#Limit
#Oneself
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Achieve
#Greater
#He
#Man
#Must
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Every
#Our
#Spoken Word
#Spoken
#Word
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Good Things
#Good
#Home
#Know
#Will
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Cannot
#Crooked
#Never
#Path
#Straight
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Activity
#Adversity
#Fresh
#Overcoming
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#First
#Man
#Place
#Principal
#Who
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Convictions
#Keep
#Will
#Your
#Yourself
The unnatural, that too is natural.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Natural
#Too
#Unnatural
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Find
#Moral
#Sick
#Start
#Your
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Objects
#Own
#Position
#Story
#Tell
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Appearance
#Art
#Create
#Reality
#Use
In art the best is good enough.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Art
#Best
#Enough
#Good
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Fortune
#Good Fortune
#Good
#Never
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Enjoy
#Fame
#Holy
#Rank
#Your
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Culture
#Mind
#Peace Of Mind
#Peace
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Alone
#Artist
#Everybody
#He
#Spirits
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Anything
#Happens
#He
#Man
#Wishes
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Cannot
#Possess
#Understand
#Whatever
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#He
#Know
#Sides
#Take
#Task
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Existence
#Individuality
#Necessary
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#About
#Absent
#Those
#Who
#Words
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Fables
#More
#Nothing
#Self
#World
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Firm
#Men
#Person
#Purpose
#Things
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Better
#Deceive
#Deceived
#Friends
#Them
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Fancy
#Hard
#Must
#Necessity
#Will
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Imagination
#More
#Nothing
#Taste
#Than
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Beginning
#End
#Happy
#Life
#Man
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#First
#Genius
#Last
#Love
#Truth
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Entirely
#Half
#Life
#Man
#Posterity
Live dangerously and you live right.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Dangerously
#Live
#Right
#You
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Children
#God
#Love
#Own
#Us
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#I Am
#Life
#My Life
#Others
#Useful
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Find
#Go
#Know
#People
#Us
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Highest
#Passions
#Vices
#Virtues
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Behind
#Leave
#Letters
#Person
#Them
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Children
#Fashion
#God
#Love
#Us
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Come
#Handy
#Ideas
#Very
#Words
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Coming
#Lose
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Art
#Everything
#Personality
#Poetry
On all the peaks lies peace.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Lies
#Peace
#Peaks
Superstition is the poetry of life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Life
#Poetry
#Superstition
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Children
#Early
#Nothing
#Should
#Up
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Bridge
#Burn
#Come
#Will
Mastery passes often for egotism.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Egotism
#Mastery
#Often
#Passes
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Everything
#Prosperity
#Wisdom
#World
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Blunders
#Clever Man
#Clever
#Man
#Minor
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Activity
#Insight
#Nothing
#Without
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#He
#Hide
#Keep
#Secret
#Wishes
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Human Mind
#Human
#Limits
#Mind
#Will
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Better
#I Am
#Me
#People
#Trying
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Development
#Nature
#Pause
#Progress
A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Death
#Early
#Life
#Useless
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Age
#Long
#Old Age
#Old
#Young
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Book
#Down
#Man
#My Own
#Own
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Complaining
#Day
#Headache
#Night
#Wine
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Dignity
#Greatest
#Life
#Music
#Through
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Character
#Laugh
#More
#Nothing
#People
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Alone
#Heart
#Own
#Will
#Win
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Beyond
#Destiny
#Order
#Own
#Way
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Common Sense
#Genius
#Humanity
#Sense
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Ball
#Feet
#Happiness
#Push
#Wherever
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#Man
#Moment
#Right Man
#Right
#Who
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