Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collected Works
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, First Part
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"Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen."
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"Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, Part One
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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
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"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
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"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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
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"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
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"You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, First Part
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.(Letter to A. F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
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"By seeking and blundering we learn."
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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
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"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
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"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
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"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
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"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."
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