Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."
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"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"On top of the world, or in the depths of despair."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"National 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
"There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He'd have improved if you'd not given Him a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increased His power to be beastlier than a beast."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast. If you’d live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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