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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Inspirational Quotes (1015)

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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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