Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day"
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"Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything is hard before it is easy"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who moves not forward, goes backward."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you would create something,you must be something."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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