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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The coward only threatens when he is safe.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That is the true season 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 love in the same way after us.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Superstition is the poetry of life.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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Precaution is better than cure.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

By 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.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

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One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe