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“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I call architecture frozen music.”
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
“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person hears only what they understand.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
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
“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If your treat an individual... 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
“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
