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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We cannot shape our children according to our ideas, We must keep and love them as God gave them to us.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruining their craft.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There has been and always will be plenty of arguments about the usefulness and harm of the spreading of the Bible. In my view the Bible will c...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, who follows blind instinct, strives to duplicate the reality o...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only those who must conquer them every day Deserve freedom as well as life.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of being created so ...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If the artist is not also a craftsman, the artist is nothing, but calamity: most of our artists are nothing but craftsmen.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in nature is change b...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they mu...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever co...
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe