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Quotations by author » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament
Art
The coward threatens when he is safe
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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The deed is all, the glory nothing.
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty
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