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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Nature
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Nature
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Dreams
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Change
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Art
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe